Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-30 Thread Thodoris
O/H Don O'Neil ??: I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Don O'Neil
I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? It's reasonable to start with something like a:

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Oliver Herold
Maybe with stress? http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ /usr/ports/sysutils/stress Cheers, Oliver On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:43:24AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What is the best way to do this? It's reasonable to start with something like a: dd if=/dev/your_disk of=/dev/null bs=5120 ...to at least try reading every sector on the drive as a basic sanity check. why so small blocks of 10 sectors? i use bs=64k at least goes faster. Better would be

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's reasonable to start with something like a: dd if=/dev/your_disk of=/dev/null bs=5120 ...to at least try reading every sector on the drive as a basic sanity check. why so small blocks of 10 sectors? i use bs=64k at least goes