[PLUG] Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive

[Jackman]

At work we use MHDD, but I personally use seatools if I'm just for a
good/bad evaluation.

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
MHDD is included on UBCD: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

For most of these, however, you still need a native connection to the
drive (not usb).

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) that use to be in my laptop,
> but I ran out of room so I replaced it with a larger drive. I have the
> WD1200 in one of those nifty ez-upgrade USB drive enclosures and it mounts
> and works just fine. I need some portable back up space, so I thought I
> would use this drive. 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.
> I am looking for either a command line tool or gui that I can run on a
> Debian machine to exercise the drive and find any errors. An automated test
> suite that I can setup and run in the background (ie does not suck up the
> whole machine to run it) for a few hours/days to test the drive, log errors,
> fix those errors that can be fixed, etc.
>
> I can't use the WD diags for the drive since my Windows machine will not
> recognize the drive in its usb caddy. I looked at bonnie++ and I can't find
> a way to tell it to test a usb drive instead of the drive with the root file
> system. Bonnie is also a benchmarking program and not really a drive stress
> test program.
>
> Any recommendations? I don't care about the data on the drive now, as I have
> sucked it all off to my new hard drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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