How to diagnose hdd health?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 20:49:22 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:29, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> What are the best way(s) to diagonose the health of a hdd, and not only
> it's filesystem. Preferably, what 'Fedora abailable' commands can I use?
Use smartctl if the drive supports it. If it doesn't, a brute force
nondestructive approach is to 'cat /dev/xxx >/dev/null' to force every
sector to be read and watch for error messages on the screen or logged
to /var/log/messages. Or you could use the 'badblocks' program.
> I'm going to soon install some HDDs i had sittign around, and I just
> wanted to know how to test them to see if they are any good, and how bad
> they may be.
I usually low-level SCSI drives when moving them to a different
controller. It's probably just superstition now but it used to
make a difference. Or course you can't do that with IDE drives.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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