Looking for a good disk exerciser

["Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has been behaving strangely since I put it in.  for one thing, the BIOS S.M.A.R.T. came up with a warning the last time I booted with it enabled, saying that I should backup my data and replace the disk (!).

I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and I have some time yet to take it back, but I'd like to know for sure that it needs it, or at least have some reasonable evidence of failure.

What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some assurance of errors or lack thereof?

Thanks.

Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (
www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
949-680-3082 - Office     949-330-7691 - fax

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