Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:47:22 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070417134620.0261dac0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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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.
>
>Thanks for your help.
Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives. Each manufacturer has
bootable test and stress utilities.
-Derek
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