On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged > drive I wanted to try to reuse, I wouldn't put real data on it until I > had exercised it for 24 hrs straight anyway.
I agree, stress it as much as you can, ie. create partitions before and after the damaged part of the drive, create a 512 MB file from random data, then fill up the drive with that file (do the copying of the file in parallel). Then, again in parallel, do md5 sums of those files. Doing copying in parallel and then md5 summing in parallel will stress the drive with seeking. If it completes successfully, I think this drive would be "ok" to use for a year or so if you're lucky. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
