[ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best luck with?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Matty <matty91 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Ron Frazier
> <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
>
>> No matter what you buy, I would get a copy of Spinrite ( $ 90 )
>> ( http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm ).  This is one of the world's most
>> advanced disk drive analysis and recovery programs.  The installer is a
>> Windows program, but once you run that, you can create a bootable CD
>> image which boots on it's own and has it's own clone of DOS.  It has to
>> run own its own without the normal OS running.
>
> I typically use pre_clear.sh to scrub my disks:
>
> http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/18/wiping-a-hard-drive-with-preclear_disk-sh/
>
> This script is free and runs on Linux (no need for Windows). Anyone
> know of other disk scrubbing tools for Linux?

I started looking at this script but it seems to want to depend on
running on an unRAID system.  It doesn't seem like it's a general Linux
solution.  In particular, it's looking for a file /boot/config/disk.cfg,
which doesn't exist on my system, and it seems like it can't even list
available disks.

Are you using unRAID?  If not, how did you get this script to work for you?

> - Ryan
> --
> http://prefetch.net

-derek

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