Re: Drive test Utility

["Vardhan Varma" <Vardhan@Bitsmart.com>]

> 
> Does anyone know of a package or utility that exercises and surface 
> scans hard drives? (IDE in particular)
> 
> 
> The IDEAL would be if the program could run in background and do a 
> non-destructive surface scan to a mounted drive. I know that's asking a
> lot, but I'd be happy with anything at this point.
> 
	doesn't good old badblock ( or is it badblocks ) do it for you. 
	AFAIK you will have to unmount partition to check, but if you are 
sure pc has a floppy in it, you can transfer sys on it remotely, and 
script it to boot, badblocks root partition, and reboot and run hard 
disk-s kernel.

	I know i'm tellint you too much, but then you asked for too much (-;

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-- Vardhan@bitsmart.com