[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser

Mark Hull-Richter mhullrich at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 19:13:23 UTC 2007


On 4/12/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If the drive supports SMART, smartctl should be able to test it and
> display the diagnostics.  I'd try to get a replacement before the
> warranty expires.


But of course!

What's interesting is that I currently have the SMART in the BIOS disabled,
and the disk says it doesn't support SMART capability (per smartctl).  I
don't know if that's because the BIOS SMART is disabled, but I'm still going
to put some pressure on it.

Thanks.

mhr
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