In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like > to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of > errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. > > Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to > stress-test disk drives? I've searched ports and done some googling > but nothing stands out.
You can use bonnie++ to stress test the drives, but it doesn't guarantee that it uses all of the drive, so you might want to do a massive dd "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[rawDevice] bs=512 count=[#sectors]" as one possible example. Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities you can download specifically to check their drives. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
