Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:06:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors Message-ID: <20070417130653.a07b6c1c.wmoran@potentialtech.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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In response to "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>: > 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. You can use bonnie++ to stress test the drives, but it doesn't guarantee that it uses all of the drive, so you might want to do a massive dd "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[rawDevice] bs=512 count=[#sectors]" as one possible example. Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities you can download specifically to check their drives. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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