Hi all, besides http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ is there any other tool for stressing the HD and finding out possible errors, weaknesses, bad sectors/clusters, etc? Please provide some usage examples :-) I have found that some HD errors only show up after a long period of time or when the system is busy doing heavy I/O tasks... Thanks, Martin
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 1:41 pm, Martin Mielke wrote:
besides http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ is there any other tool for stressing the HD and finding out possible errors, weaknesses, bad sectors/clusters, etc? Please provide some usage examples :-)
I have found that some HD errors only show up after a long period of time or when the system is busy doing heavy I/O tasks...
I highly recommend the Maxtor PowerMax disk diagnostics -- from the people who make the hardware (though they run on other brands of hard drives also). They are available free at the Maxtor website and run off a floppy (they use Caldera DR-DOS just to get started). They have various levels of both nondestructive and destructive testing, including a (non-desctructive) burn-in test. These diagnostics, unlike many others, check the whole drive without regard to partitions or their contents. Paul Abrahams
The Wednesday 2004-01-28 at 19:41 +0100, Martin Mielke wrote: El 2004-01-28 a las 19:41 +0100, Martin Mielke escribió:
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:41:24 +0100 From: Martin Mielke <martin.mielke@thales-is.com> Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] HD stressing tool
Hi all,
besides http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ is there any other tool for stressing the HD and finding out possible errors, weaknesses, bad sectors/clusters, etc? Please provide some usage examples :-)
smartctl - S.M.A.R.T. control and monitor utility smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The pur pose of S.M.A.R.T. is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests. This version of smartctl is compatible with ATA/ATAPI-5 and earlier stan dards (see REFERENCES below) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I have found that some HD errors only show up after a long period of time or when the system is busy doing heavy I/O tasks...
Thanks,
Martin
Martin Mielke wrote:
Hi all,
besides http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ is there any other tool for stressing the HD and finding out possible errors, weaknesses, bad sectors/clusters, etc? Please provide some usage examples :-)
I have found that some HD errors only show up after a long period of time or when the system is busy doing heavy I/O tasks...
Martin, Check out http://www.ultimatebootcd.com. HD tool heaven and a good CD to have in your collection. Damian
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