Computer Hardware Support - Re: Hard Disk requalification

Computer Hardware Support - Re: Hard Disk requalification

Ian East wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have many hard disks that I must re-qualify (they are old and can
> not easily be replaced). Does anyone know of a good way of
> requalifying IDE hard disks on an x86 system? The OS doesn't matter
> as I can use Linux, Windows, Solaris x86, etc... The test should at
> least write the entire surface of the disk, read the entire surface of
> the disk, do random seek tests, and "exercise" the disk for 12 hours
> or so. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried some of the
> various benchmarking programs like bonnie++, iozone, etc... but have
> not quite found something that suitable specifically for
> re-qualification.
>
> Thanks for any help.

You might look into Spinrite.