[wellylug] Testing hard disks

Volker Kuhlmann hidden at paradise.net.nz
Wed Sep 17 17:40:42 NZST 2003


> >I want to test some old hard disks to find out if they are working
> >correctly before installing a system on them and finding out they are
> >less than perfect. 
> 
> badblocks -w 
> 
> That's what I do with old hard drives -- it does a 4 pass write/compare
> test on the drive.

A 15G disk I have is throwing I/O errors on the 5G partition, all the
rest is fine. I nulled out that partition with dd and then ran badblocks
-w, which found no errors. When I went to install the system on that
partition, the I/O errors in syslog keep scrolling past.

Is there a disk test which actually works, or is there something else
wrong? The fact that the other 2 partitions on the disk are just fine
makes me think it's not likely to be a problem with the cable or mobo.

Thanks,

Volker

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