Hi Steve,
Have you looked at "badblock" which is a part of the e2fs suite of tools, is good way to test a drive? In theory you could create a fedora boot usb and then have a simple bash script that you can execute that check's the drives and outputs to a file? https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ steve From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Jenkins Sent: Monday, 4 October 2010 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Hard Drive Diagnostic Tool? As we've migrated out of older servers, we've been "collecting" piles of old SCSI hot-swappable hard drives and I'd now like to see if any of them can be put back into service. I've got the Dell 32-bit Diag utilities running on an old 2550 so we can test a bunch of Atlas SCSI drives. I can put four drives in at one time, and the Dell diags will let me select all the drives and start a confidence test, but that requires someone (me) to sit in front of the test system and wait to press the OK button part way through each test to allow it to continue. Can anyone point me toward a better solution for testing the drives? I've got about 25 of them and would rather say "go" on the diag and just come back in a few hours to see the results. We're going to wipe all these disks clean, so protecting data on them isn't important. I just want to make sure that before we put a drive back in service, we're reasonably confident that the media is in good shape. Thanks, Steve Notice This email and any attachments are strictly confidential and subject to copyright. They may contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. You should not read, copy, use, change, alter or disclose this email or its attachments without authorisation. The company and any related or associated companies do not accept any liability in connection with this email and any attachments including in connection with computer viruses, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Any views expressed in this email and any attachments do not necessarily reflect the views of the company or the views of any of our related or associated companies.
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