[TriLUG] exhaustive disk testing

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:29:39PM -0500, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> So the question is:
> What is the best way to do a long, exhaustive disk test to
> find out if the drive is really bad (and have some output
> to include in our warranty claim)?  We have a Knoppix 5.1
> disc handy.  (There is no DVD drive in this machine, so
> whatever we use must be CD bootable).

Run until it starts to fail, boot knoppix, then try the SMART offline
self diagnostic, or check the SMART logs after running a while.

SMART should be available on most recent drives.

-- 
Wolfe