[ale] Disk testing app wanted

[Ed Cashin]

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.

What would you like to test for?  The test will be different if you want
to, say, find out "Is this disk slower than my other disks?" than it would
be if you want to ask, "What sectors of the disk corrupt data?  And is
that set consistent?"

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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>