On Sunday 31 July 2005 04:53 pm, Matt Darnell wrote: > Aloha, > > I am having trouble with one of our servers. > > Background: > It is a Dell 1750 with hardware SCSI Raid 1. We are running Debian. > > The server fell apart last weekend (after fsck from a rescue CD the > '/' file system was empty). We wiped the disks, loaded the base > debian, and restored our back ups. The back up is an image type, i.e. > all the same bianaries were restored. > > This weekend it was acting wierd again and will not return after a > reboot. We have restored to anther server and are back up & running. > > Question: > Does anyone know of a Linux 'rescue CD' that i can boot off of and run > tests on the hard drive system? I think they write all different > kinds of patterns to the disks. > > Googling led to Memtest86, I am running it now.
Matt, have you had a chance to look at bonnie++. I am sure that knoppix will have it. The Ultimate Boot CD has some pretty good utilities. > > Aloha, > Matt --scott