Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ > > the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was > > something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more > > thoroug

Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been "awhile ago"... maybe ~5 years.

Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-07 Thread Oliver Herold
Bonnie++ is a benchmark, to actually 'test' your harddrive you should use some tool of the manufacturer. Cheers, Oliver On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:40:50PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ > the only meeans of testing a hard drive

hard drive testing...

2007-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been "awhile ago"... maybe ~5 years. thanks, peo