[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser

Thu Apr 12 18:56:41 UTC 2007
Kelly F. Hickel <kfh at mqsoftware.com>

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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
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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/

 

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Kelly F. Hickel
Senior Software Architect
MQSoftware, Inc
952.345.8677
kfh at mqsoftware.com

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