Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:04:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Don O'Neil <lists@lizardhill.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs Message-ID: <20070927210423.K20243@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <0079D5BC-57FB-4013-B772-545D7D83203B@mac.com> References: <001201c8012d$e747d620$0a00020a@mickey> <0079D5BC-57FB-4013-B772-545D7D83203B@mac.com>
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>> What is the best way to do this? > > It's reasonable to start with something like a: > > dd if=/dev/your_disk of=/dev/null bs=5120 > > ...to at least try reading every sector on the drive as a basic sanity check. why so small blocks of 10 sectors? i use bs=64k at least goes faster. > Better would be to install /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and run some > SMART self-tests via: > > smartctl -t long /dev/your_disk > > smartctl even understands some types of RAID controllers, but not all of > them.... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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