Bill Moran writes:
Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities
you can download specifically to check their drives.
If the drives are somewhat recent you can try using SMART to check them.
In particular you can use the smartmontools port.
You may need to enable SMA
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:18PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
> >I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a
> >particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I
> >see messages like this:
> >
> >Apr 16 22:51:44
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a
particular
disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I see
messages
like this:
Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC
error (retrying reques
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd
> > like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free
> > of errors and suitable
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:46:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd
> >>like to quickly and efficiently test each
On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like
>to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
>errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical w
At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
Hello,
I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like
to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, wha
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Doug Poland wrote:
I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like
to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what
In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like
> to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
> errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
>
> Using FreeBSD 6.x as a
Hello,
I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like
to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to
stress-test disk dr
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