Mike McCarty wrote:
Hadders wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering if there's something for friendly to use than
badblocks to test a disk?
Just doing a 'badblocks -vw /dev/sda' and it does 5 passes to ensure
it's good, but it doesn't tell you where it's at....
Does anybody use anything other than this to test a disk?
Bought two new SATAII disks and want to make sure they're good before
I start using them.
You've got some misconceptions. Those drives do sector remapping. Using
read/write tests won't detect this, as the FEC on the discs will hide
the errors. You need to query the disc itself for the knowledge it
has.
# smartctl -a /dev/hdx
# hdparm -I /dev/hdx
may help.
Mike
Okay, that makes sense. But I need to write something to them to have
the FEC detect a failure and remap it?
H
