Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:45:01 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hard drive testing... Message-ID: <470A6C9D.20605@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071007214050.GA75418@thought.org> References: <20071007214050.GA75418@thought.org>
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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
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