Hard drive testing

"Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:33:59 -0800

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I have been running SuSE 9.1 for a couple of months. Every few weeks, the 
machine freezes up, responding only to the hardware reset button. Some time 
back, someone recommended that I test the hard drive. What program(s) do 
folks use for thorough testing of a hard drive? I'm willing to back up the 
small amount of data on this machine, and don't mind reinstalling the OS, so 
a test that wants to write over everything is OK.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens
http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/