[ale] Disk testing app wanted

[Jim Kinney]

fill the drive with DVD images from Centos and do a checksum test.

I saw a test once that involved a dd if=/dev/zero followed by a read
that ran a consecutive sum. if the return value was not 0...

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mills John
M-NPHW64<Jmills at motorola.com> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> Is there a simple read/write test or script I can turn loose on a suspect
> SATA drive and let it run? There's no data on the disk I care to preserve.
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
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