Computer Hardware Support - Re: Hard Disk requalification

Computer Hardware Support - Re: Hard Disk requalification

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:15:53 -0700 If I have seen farther it is
because I have stood on the shoulder of giants 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.




As per other post,"Spinrite" or the free,"Powermax",
http://tinyurl.com/4osje
Although made by Maxtor will run on most makes(I've not found one yet
it won't do).
HTH :)




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