From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HguxI-000445-9b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:47:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3Q3jA2N008212; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:45:10 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3Q3j9WN008193 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:45:09 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so509970ugc for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:45:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=WcHqniL4TWYK0FZ6PJIlFN8v6mEtYCbODXWoDejAfZkxeUN355wvYNu/xRWPIaAVBzjzaE3rgjqxTmitvpc3Na4NrwF8c3Qlvjjx2ShHDzm6OSK+tatvJf37F0hoqdczzxK5Up9iB/uftTa77egplalecHNCDd9YHzzlo6nzf7o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=CVq8eK7LwCitWcGxNfh0hR7iG+UB0zSQKPOzShTF3FEyEzMbpXMmhyJ96P9ZdJUTLjA/7N1J8jbSnB9V9q2q9pvR2rCKgCKAT7ZIMyqY/kq1u/VeRlcx2Oh4Ti5048pLFP/s+xC9j5bzru3IooKp4Sg3LkjvW/YuMTwODi+jxH8= Received: by 10.82.145.7 with SMTP id s7mr2465049bud.1177559109162; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.134.13 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7c08b4dd0704252045k2c5d698aq20e32b3ce0cd017f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:45:09 -0400 From: "Peter Davoust" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard Drive Stress Test Application In-Reply-To: <20070426033342.GE9934@ifa.hawaii.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_57264_16703779.1177559109067" References: <463017AD.7050401@singnet.com.sg> <20070426033342.GE9934@ifa.hawaii.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 941964d2-e3fa-4b51-a7d0-e84a0478d754 X-Archives-Hash: b0998f77f6d6ce5aba07f14c1adcb86f ------=_Part_57264_16703779.1177559109067 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I like the last two ideas, send me pictures once you've tried it. Seriously, there must be some way to "overclock" your data bus, other than that I'm not sure there's much you can do with hard disks. As far as I know that kind of stuff is governed by the CPU, so overclocking the CPU might give you're drive a run for it's money, although I imagine motherboards these days are smarter than the 8085 board sitting on my desk. Realisticly, the only way I could see stress testing them would be through some kind of overclocking or pulling clocking capacitors from your motherboard which I'm assuming you don't want to do. Why do you want to stress test them anyway? -Peter On 4/25/07, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:08:29AM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote: > > Now I need to test to see if it works under stress conditions for my > > hard disks. > > You could yell at it and telling it that it's a "very bad disk" and that > it'll just be obsolete a week from Tuesday. If that's a rigorous enough > stress test, you try could pounding on it with a framing hammer or giving > it > a bath. ;) > > -J > > -- > > ------=_Part_57264_16703779.1177559109067 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I like the last two ideas, send me pictures once you've tried it. Seriously, there must be some way to "overclock" your data bus, other than that I'm not sure there's much you can do with hard disks. As far as I know that kind of stuff is governed by the CPU, so overclocking the CPU might give you're drive a run for it's money, although I imagine motherboards these days are smarter than the 8085 board sitting on my desk. Realisticly, the only way I could see stress testing them would be through some kind of overclocking or pulling clocking capacitors from your motherboard which I'm assuming you don't want to do. Why do you want to stress test them anyway?

-Peter

On 4/25/07, Joshua Hoblitt < jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:08:29AM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> Now I need to test to see if it works under stress conditions for my
> hard disks.

You could yell at it and telling it that it's a "very bad disk" and that
it'll just be obsolete a week from Tuesday.  If that's a rigorous enough
stress test, you try could pounding on it with a framing hammer or giving it
a bath. ;)

-J

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