I have found badblocks useful as well for testing the health of disks. You can find it on the System Rescue CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
And here is a description of it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks
Hope that helps. :)
Lacey
On Jul 26, 2014 8:25 AM, "Jan Lentfer" <
Jan.Lentfer@web.de> wrote:
> Am 26.07.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>:
>
> What would you use to write/read/verify every sector of a hard disk? (I'm interested in really testing a disk, not in being lied to by S.M.A.R.T.)
>
> Given what I've got spare for testing, either a Win7 application, or some LiveCD would be most convenient.
Any Linux or BSD LiveCD should come with dd. Still you should save a copy of smartctl output before you run dd and compare it to smartctl output after running dd, if dd finishes without error at all.
Jan
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