hard disk

[Thierry ITTY]

A 06:15 19/07/2005 +0100, vous avez écrit :
>Hello Gurus,
>
>Though I am running fsck often my redhat linux system
>is hanging and giving DISK seek error.
>
>Is there any command in redhat linux which shows the
>hard disk is faulty or not.
>
>like chkdsk in windows

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null 

will read the whole disk and report bad sectors

you may add bs=<track_size> to go faster and conv=noerror

crc errors come very often from a dying media, but they can also happen
with electrical problems such as bad grounding, weak power unit, sudden
power off

hth

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