On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:
> From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
> > I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
> > to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
> > problems before I use it as a backup drive.
>
> If you don't care about the data on the disk, plug it in, then in an xterm
> or
> konsole or screen session, run "badblocks -s -w -o badblocks.out
> /dev/sdd1",
> replacing sdd1 with whatever disk and partition# the drive shows up as.
> This'll do a destructive read/write test on all sectors of the device. It
> will tie up the device, but all the other devices will remain usable, since
> Linux does multitasking pretty well in most cases. You could add "-p 1" to
> make it do 2 passes if you really want to check it out. If it does find
> bad
> blocks, you can pass the badblocks.out file to mke2fs's -l option, which
> could
> keep things usable.
>
Sounds good...will this also exercise the hardware enough to see if it has
become flaky over the years? I have used floppy based drive testers that run
for hours/days that also report if the drive is flaky over time with a lot
of usage.
I guess I will need to reformat the drive once this test is done....correct?
Or does it put the original data back?
>
> Make sure you get the device name right.
>
Hmmmm..."measure twice, cut once" is my motto, and I usually only have a few
scraps left over. It would be funny, in a sad way, to get the wrong
drive.......
Thanks!
Mark
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