On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:29:18AM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: >... > Do you know of any disk test or utility program that can stress the disk > to work hard until it fails?
Smartmontools is available as an OBSD package. From the port readme: ------------------ smartmontools-5.33 -- control and monitor storage systems using SMART The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. See http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ for details.
