Re: [cobalt-users] Testing Hard Drive for Problems {Scanned}

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, SW wrote:
>
> I was hoping there is something I can run from the command line (linux)
> instead of removing the HD and installing it in a Windows box. Most of the
> stuff I found to test HD, require you to use a bootup disk which contain one
> version or another of DOS to run the diagnostic utility to test the HD.
> Maybe I'm asking for too much. :-)

To throughly test a hard drive you must be able to dismount it.
Makes it a little difficult on a RaQ, unless you install a RaQ3i or RaQ4i
on hda, then install the drive you want to test as hdc.
Seagate does have Linux versions of the diagnostic utility, look on the Seagate Site.

Gerald
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