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Re: [cobalt-users] Testing Hard Drive for Problems {Scanned}
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Testing Hard Drive for Problems {Scanned}
- From: Willem Koster <W.Koster@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Feb 3 05:24:07 2004
- Organization: RC ICT RuG
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
SW wrote:
> I just purchased a few Raq3s and I was wondering if there are any diagnostic
> utilities to test the hard drive in the Raq3 for any problems? I was hoping
> there is something I can run from the command line that will check for any
> problems.
I always used plain and simple dd.
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=8192k
mayby loop it so it will run for a weekend or so...