Hi, this may be an obvious question, but here goes:
ByteWorks needs to diagnose and scan a bunch of hard drives. Using an
external USB or Firewire adapter is best (simpler and faster than
hooking each drive up internally). It seems a lot of the available hard
disk diagnosis tools out there are sort-of manufacturer specific.
Here's my question.
Is there something like scanModem, that deals with hard disk diagnosis?
And if not, how difficult would it be to create a script to do the
following:
- obtain basic drive information (size, type, manufacturer, etc.)
- display output (is this really needed?)
- based on results of basic drive information, select the appropriate
hard disk diagnosis tool from Ultimate Boot CD tools or something like,
and run it
- if no appropriate tool found or disk unreadable, display information
accordingly
So plug in a drive to the external USB2 or Firewire adapter, open a
terminal, navigate to where the script is stored, and run this:
./testDevice /dev/sda
And either you end up reading an error message and explanation, or you
end up seeing some hard disk diagnosis tool run, and see that output
displayed.
Optimal solution would run happily on Linux machines using Open Source
solutions. Suggestions?
Thanks,
Theresa
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means are completely empty as regards
reality. - Albert Einstein ***
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