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?
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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 faster
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 to
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/bur
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:
d
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?
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