________________________________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has been behaving strangely since I put it in. for one thing, the BIOS S.M.A.R.T. came up with a warning the last time I booted with it enabled, saying that I should backup my data and replace the disk (!). I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and I have some time yet to take it back, but I'd like to know for sure that it needs it, or at least have some reasonable evidence of failure. What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some assurance of errors or lack thereof? Thanks. Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro ( www.datallegro.com <http://www.datallegro.com> ) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/ -- Kelly F. Hickel Senior Software Architect MQSoftware, Inc 952.345.8677 kfh at mqsoftware.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070412/7abd565c/attachment-0004.html>