Re: HDD Diagnostic Application

"Nutty" <nutty.sawant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As per the requirement the procedure to test HDD should be

# 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.

Examine the freely-available source code for df, fsck, fdisk, hdparm, sfdisk
and any other applications that report disk information. "man -k disk" for a
short list.

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