Re: hard drive testing...
Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been awhile ago... maybe ~5 years. thanks, people, gary All recent drives support SMART - to test a drive you can install sysutils/smartmontools and use smartctl to run a test e.g smartctl -t long /dev/ad0 There are various different tests you can run, including surface tests, online and offline etc. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive testing...
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been awhile ago... maybe ~5 years. thanks, people, gary All recent drives support SMART - to test a drive you can install sysutils/smartmontools and use smartctl to run a test e.g smartctl -t long /dev/ad0 There are various different tests you can run, including surface tests, online and offline etc. Well sir, Endless thanks due here! These are utilities that I will print and study the man pages to, c. bonnie++ ran last night and very heavily loaded the system; it came up clean. I'm now running the second (every-4-hours) smartctl test. The first run that you sugggested above also showed no errors. Great that these utilities work with SCSI because that will be my next install on my DNS server. Meanwhile, I've added this to my sysadmin-knowledge-base kit. gary -- Bruce -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hard drive testing...
Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been awhile ago... maybe ~5 years. thanks, people, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive testing...
Bonnie++ is a benchmark, to actually 'test' your harddrive you should use some tool of the manufacturer. Cheers, Oliver On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:40:50PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been awhile ago... maybe ~5 years. thanks, people, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
