Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:46:50 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors Message-ID: <d7195cff0704180946kade1d52wa96f0dd5ad71e280@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070417134620.0261dac0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20070417134620.0261dac0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like > >to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of > >errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. > > > >Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to > >stress-test disk drives? I've searched ports and done some googling > >but nothing stands out. > > Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives. Each manufacturer has > bootable test and stress utilities. I have used this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ AFIK, there isn't much in FreeBSD for this sort of low level diagnostics, ubcd boots faster, and given a decent junk machine, you can test 3 hard drives per reboot*. If you can hunt down a pci ata card, you can probably manage quite a few more. Having an 80-wire cable is nice for some of the diagnostics (if your junk machine isn't very old it will be pretty unlikely to have a 40 wire cable, so ignore this anyway). If you really want to use freebsd, the other suggestions to use ports/sysutils/smartmontools and dd (personally I use ports/sysutils/sdd for its -inull flag) are probably what I would follow. * Unless you can boot from a scsi cdrom. -- --
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