[NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive testing

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  If you don't mind spending money, the best tool for this job is
probably SpinRite from Gibson Research. www.grc.com
 The earlier version worked only on FAT filesystems or empty disks. 
They recently released a new version that works with just about any IDE
or SCSI disk.  The system used for testing does need to be a x86 machine
because the tool boots from a floppy, cd or USB key with FreeDOS.  I
have the new version and it does this kind of testing and more.  I have
tested it with a Linux filesystem and it worked just like they said.
Good day,
Ralph

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 15:57, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> MontyS at videopost.com wrote:
> > Does anyone have suggestions for testing/exercising utilities for hard
> > drives?  I am looking for something similar to SGI's fx utility.  (exercise