Yes,ok ! I was actually looking for something will also do random seeks as well as sequential access..but thanks anyway :) -- Regards Cliff On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:05:58PM +0200, Webillo Disperso wrote:

Innocent read: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=4096 count 10000000

----- Mensaje original ----- De: "Cliff Sarginson" Para: Enviado: viernes, 19 de octubre de 2001 14:40 Asunto: [SLE] Disk Exercisers

: Hello, : A sneaking supcicion is growing on me that one of : my IDE disks is getting tired of life. : Is there a non-destructive disk exerciser program : that can be be run across the whole of the physical : disk somewhere in the world. If it is going to break : I would rather it happened now than later..it is pretty : new so getting it replaced under guarantee won't be : a problem. : : It is an IBM Deskstar 60 GXP-40GB. : : Thanks. : -- : Regards : Cliff

i tried this command and it tells me that count is not a valid option. Why? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Disk Exercisers

Yes,ok ! I was actually looking for something will also do random seeks as well as sequential access..but thanks anyway :)

-- Regards Cliff

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:05:58PM +0200, Webillo Disperso wrote:

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Innocent read: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=4096 count 10000000

----- Mensaje original ----- De: "Cliff Sarginson" Para: Enviado: viernes, 19 de octubre de 2001 14:40 Asunto: [SLE] Disk Exercisers

: Hello, : A sneaking supcicion is growing on me that one of : my IDE disks is getting tired of life. : Is there a non-destructive disk exerciser program : that can be be run across the whole of the physical : disk somewhere in the world. If it is going to break : I would rather it happened now than later..it is pretty : new so getting it replaced under guarantee won't be : a problem. : : It is an IBM Deskstar 60 GXP-40GB. : : Thanks. : -- : Regards : Cliff

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--- Martin Webster wrote:

The 75GXP is the best IDE drive I every purchased; most popular drive back in 2000 too. You can download a DOS utility at:

You're in good shape (so far): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/04/0050238&mode=thread Just this /. article has massive linkage to outside reports.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm

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--- Martin Webster wrote:

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Just this /. article has massive linkage to outside reports.

I was mistaken; I've a Deskstar 34GXP (7,200RPM ATA66)

Ah. I'm happy for you, then. :) The 75GXP was so popular this year and last because it was the fastest (with Windows) ATA drive available. Now if only "High-Performance" and "Reliable" weren't mutually exclusive terms...

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Ooh, neat. :) Isn't that DOS, though?

That's what I said! Is this any better?

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