If you're drives don't talk SMART (older ones don't, it doesn't work through all interfaces either) then by all means take Guy's advice. A 'dd' test is certainly valuable. But if they do talk SMART, I think its better
True enough. However, until SMART support makes it into linux SATA drivers I'm pretty much stuck with dd!
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
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