Re: disk testing

I have found badblocks useful as well for testing the health of disks. You
can find it on the System Rescue CD

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

And here is a description of it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks

Hope that helps. :)

Lacey
On Jul 26, 2014 8:25 AM, "Jan Lentfer" <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de> wrote:

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> > Am 26.07.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>:
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> > What would you use to write/read/verify every sector of a hard disk?
> (I'm interested in really testing a disk, not in being lied to by
> S.M.A.R.T.)
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> > Given what I've got spare for testing, either a Win7 application, or
> some LiveCD would be most convenient.
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> Any Linux or BSD LiveCD should come with dd. Still you should save a copy
> of smartctl output before you run dd and compare it to smartctl output
> after running dd, if dd finishes without error at all.
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> Jan
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