[gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

["Timothy A. Holmes" <tholmes@mcaschool.net>]

Hi folks:

I have a server that failed under fedora a while back,  the EXT3
partition ended up with thousands of errors on it and the journal
corrupted itself into oblivion.  I was able (I don't know how) to
recover my data, but I wiped it out formatted the drives and installed
gentoo.  I now want to test the drives (they are now blank except for
the os) to see if the problem was with fedora and lvm (the old one) or
if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks.  The disks are
SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.

The server is a spare till I can validate it, then it will be moved back
to production status.  The result of that is, its ok if the testing
takes some time etc.

Thanks for all your help

Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
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