MonMotha and Warren, Thanks for the tips. I'll give the array a workover with your suggestions.
scott > while true ; do htparm -tT /dev/hdX ; done :) > > though that won't exercise it's seek ability > > so fiddle with something like (psuedocode follows): > for each element foo in 1-<size of HDD in MB> do > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=1k count=1k start=1024^2*$foo & > done > to get it to try to write to thousands of places on the disk at the same > time > > --MonMotha
