[LUNI] Testing IDE drives

[Stephan V Bechtolsheim]

Thanks for the info on SMART. I know this is a source of information that I need to explore more.

At this point I am little more interested in a setup where I would take a suspicious drive and have some utility test "the heck out of it" and tell me (after a few hours of
pounding on it - or earlier if there are too many errors) whether the drive is OK or not. The drive would not be mounted and deleting the information on the drive would
be acceptable.

Thank you.

StvB

----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Maney <maney at two14.net>
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2007 9:18:43 AM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] Testing IDE drives

> If SMART has been enabled, then you might find some indications in the
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