From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 17:45:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F3D16A419 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:45:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [80.68.94.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C83213C469 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:45:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.draftnet (cran1.demon.co.uk [80.177.26.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC4930356; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:45:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <470A6C9D.20605@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:45:01 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20071007214050.GA75418@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071007214050.GA75418@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hard drive testing... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:45:17 -0000 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. > > thanks, people, > > gary > All recent drives support SMART - to test a drive you can install sysutils/smartmontools and use smartctl to run a test e.g smartctl -t long /dev/ad0 There are various different tests you can run, including surface tests, online and offline etc. -- Bruce