Re: HDD Diagnostic
- From: Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:32:11 +0300
Nutty wrote:
# Check HDD
1. Validates the hard-disk device by writing a pattern onto an unused
sector and compares with the expected pattern.
2. Checks all the sectors (HDD surface test) and report bad sectors.
3. Retains the original sector contents.
Can anyone please help me to start the application.
badblocks -n /dev/hdX
It's part of the e2fsprogs package: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
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Markku Kolkka
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