On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:-
On Sunday, 2009-07-05 at 00:10 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
I think we may not be thinking about the same thing here. I was thinking about the SMART tests when I said they don't do a surface scan.
Right. But, for example, the seagate drives I have bought since two or four years back do run a surface test as part of the smart tests done by the HD firmware.
I looked into it a bit more and was mistaken. They do indeed do a surface scan as part of the long test.
It is easy to notice because they take about two hours to test, and the system becomes highly unresponsive during that time (too busy). I only know it is a non destructive test, but I don't know if it is read only or read/write.
I don't know. I think it's possibly a read test but aren't sure. According to the post here: URL:http://www.technutopia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1266 it's a read-only surface scan. Now all I have to do it take the foot back out of my mouth, and be ready for the next time I try it on for size. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org