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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:47:22 -0500
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070417134620.0261dac0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org>
References:  <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org>

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At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives.  I'd like
>to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
>errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
>
>Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to
>stress-test disk drives?  I've searched ports and done some googling
>but nothing stands out.
>
>Thanks for your help.

Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives.  Each manufacturer has 
bootable test and stress utilities.

         -Derek

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