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



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...