Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:26:15 -0700 From: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program? Message-ID: <4A2B95C7.20701@prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906070307o212f0a93x8e77faba1cebf97c@mail.gmail.com> References: <abc784790906070243t419d8ebbp59a68af23e902004@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906070300g5aa63988m370e6362829b2f28@mail.gmail.com> <abc784790906070305k77a9f067p6f3f0d22cd94b74e@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906070307o212f0a93x8e77faba1cebf97c@mail.gmail.com>
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Check the downloads section at the disk manufacturer's website. All the
disk vendors have utilities that can test their disks.
Generally these utilities can use proprietary commands to exercise
self-test functions that generally aren't accessible to non-proprietary
test code.
Most of the utilities are DOS boot disk images. You make either a
floppy or a CD from them, then boot off of it.
Mike
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