[gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Timothy A. Holmes 
Hi folks:

I have a server that failed under fedora a while back,  the EXT3
partition ended up with thousands of errors on it and the journal
corrupted itself into oblivion.  I was able (I don't know how) to
recover my data, but I wiped it out formatted the drives and installed
gentoo.  I now want to test the drives (they are now blank except for
the os) to see if the problem was with fedora and lvm (the old one) or
if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks.  The disks are
SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.

The server is a spare till I can validate it, then it will be moved back
to production status.  The result of that is, its ok if the testing
takes some time etc.

Thanks for all your help

Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen 
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
 if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks.  The disks are
 SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
 not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.

Use a livecd/knoppix thing and run badblocks(8) on them.

Cheers,
  Rasmus
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Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Huckstep 

Rasmus Andersen wrote:

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
  

if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks.  The disks are
SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.



Use a livecd/knoppix thing and run badblocks(8) on them.

Cheers,
  Rasmus
  
I vote for the Ultimate Boot CD. small download (i think) and it has 
pretty much every hard drive tool on it, so you can rum the appropriate 
manufacturer's tools and figure out if they are dead, and also low level 
format the drives for a complete fresh start.


Daniel
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