On 12/18/2010 01:26 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Sounds good...will this also exercise the hardware enough to see if it
has become flaky over the years? I have used floppy based drive testers
that run for hours/days that also report if the drive is flaky over time
with a lot of usage.
SMART will s
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:16:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive
From: m...@phillipsmarketing.biz
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen mailto:cryptwo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
the drive manufacturers and then built into
> SpeedFan's (upgrade-able) tables.
> Totally non-destructive.
>
> I am not aware of any Linux equivalents. But to be sure, they must be
> out there.
>
> (-: Chas.M. :-)
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> Date: Sat, 18
#x27;s) just work...
(-: Chas.M. :-)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:16:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive
From: m...@phillipsmarketing.biz
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen wrote:
Look for Bonnie++ its for hdd testing
I
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Look for Bonnie++ its for hdd testing
>
I found it, but I can't find a way to specify which hard drive to test.
Based on reading the man page and some googleing, I think it only tests the
drive with the root file system. I don't see an option to
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jordan Aberle wrote:
> Use the manufacturer's diagnostic software, they all have their own.
> Simply go to the website and click support, look for diagnostic hard
> drive software. Most of them require that you extract the files to a
> bootable cd or floppy disk a
Look for Bonnie++ its for hdd testing
On Dec 18, 2010 12:56 PM, "Mark Phillips"
wrote:
> I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) that use to be in my
laptop,
> but I ran out of room so I replaced it with a larger drive. I have the
> WD1200 in one of those nifty ez-upgrade USB drive enclosu
amassed by the drive manufacturers and then built into
SpeedFan's (upgrade-able) tables.
Totally non-destructive.
I am not aware of any Linux equivalents. But to be sure, they must be out
there.
(-: Chas.M. :-)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:26:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Looking For Software to C
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Mark Phillips
> > I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
> > to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
> > problems before I use it as a backup drive.
>
> If you don't care about the
Use the manufacturer's diagnostic software, they all have their own.
Simply go to the website and click support, look for diagnostic hard
drive software. Most of them require that you extract the files to a
bootable cd or floppy disk and run the test outside linux or windows.
If the hard drive is
From: Mark Phillips
> I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
> to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
> problems before I use it as a backup drive.
If you don't care about the data on the disk, plug it in, then in an xterm or
konsole or scr
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