[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser
Dan Halbert
halbert at bbn.com
Thu Apr 12 18:22:34 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has
> been behaving strangely ...
> What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some
> assurance of errors or lack thereof?
I would recommend downloading and running the manufacturer's standalone
disk-checking program (in this case, SeaTools). I have seen both false
and true SMART errors from BIOS.
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