Josh Grosse wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:29:18AM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > >>... >>Do you know of any disk test or utility program that can stress the disk >>to work hard until it fails? >
Oh, thanks, but I tried to do it a month ago from my Linux box and this is an old disk that does not have the SMART thing. :-( Thank you very much. Ramiro. > > Smartmontools is available as an OBSD package. From the port readme: > > ------------------ > > smartmontools-5.33 -- control and monitor storage systems using SMART > > The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and > smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the > Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built > into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these > utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. > > See http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ for details.
