Ian Malone wrote:
Has anyone any suggestions for checking the physical health of a hard disc? Something analogous to the "surface scan" in Windows Scandisk? I've got a disc which has some sectors marked as bad by Windows scandisk, and has had them for quite a while (for no obvious reason; I think scandisk messed up at some point). smartctl for the drive is fine.
Have you run any smartctl tests? smartctl -t long /dev/hda sleep long time smartctl -a /dev/hda and look at the bottom. You would see something like: Extended Offline Completed without error if no error occured. Note: There might be a logentry like this from the manufacturing of the disk, look at the LiftTime column. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
