[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:08:08AM -0700, Lan Barnes spake thusly: >> Probably should. Can you recommend the tests I should run? Remember, >> this >> isn't my area. (Sometimes I wonder if I have an area :-( ) > > I wish I was aware of more comprehensive disk exercising tools for > Linux > but the only one I know of is badblocks. Make sure you use it in > read-only > mode (the default) if you already have data on the drive but if the > drive > is blank using write mode will get you a more thorough test.
I have one called diskperf in my TOOLS folder. Here are some links I found. I think this is not the right program. http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/jfp/english/diskperf.html This seems to be related, but I don't see the source code. http://wwwpdp.web.cern.ch/wwwpdp/pc/PCRD/SRC/diskperf.html -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. -- Mark Twain -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
