From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 9 21:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF3114CD1 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 21:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10722 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:57:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907100457.AAA10722@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD Hardware List" Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:58:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Testing HDs Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have two refurbished HDs that seem to be dying. Luckily they are still under the 90 day warranty. What is the best way to test drives upon bying them? Continuous newfs? For how long should one stress test them? The drives I have were very lightly used for most of the time I have had them. If I had done any kind of stress tests they would probably have shown signs of problems early on. Does a format with the controller utility help? The "verify" function doesn't seem to be doing much. I tried to use this just to get the drive in enough shape to get some files I needed. Although I did get the files the verify didn't seem very helpfull. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message