Theresa. I use a plug in hard drive enclosure mounted in a computer
connected to the computer power and multi pin connectors. Then put the drive
to be tested in the removable portion and test it from the floppy diagnostic
disk which boots with the bios set up to boot from the floppy, with or
without an operating system. Tony
On 2/19/07, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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