Re: Any brutal hard drive burn-in programs?

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 22:18, Jason Fesler wrote:
> Does anyone have any leads on really brutal hard drive burnin
> software? The benchmark stuff isn't nearly brutal enough, and really
> only tests timing.  I don't mind if the burnin software is data
> destructive or works at the file system layer but would like to see
> every sector beat upon if possible, with writes validated later with
> reads to make sure the data is what is expected.  I'd like to be able
> to have something run, viciously, for a few days, against things like
> software raids and external IDE raids. A real bonus would be
> something that ran via command line, so I can make a netboot profile
> :-).

while `true`; do mke2fs -c -c <device>; done

And it just keeps going on and on and on. It doesn't do killer-seeks, 
though.

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