by Hello, I have bought a second-hand hard disk and I'd like to make sure
it contains no bad sectors. Of course you'll tell me "use mke2fs with
the right options, it well check it for bad sectors and mark these bad
sectors as unusable".
That's indeed right but I'd like to find some program that tests for
bad sectors *in a loop*, that is I can leave the computer on all night
for testing.
It is commonly said that some bad sectors only appear when the disk is
very hot or has been used for a few hours/days.
Does such a program exist ? If it does, can you point me to the right
place ? Does it exist on a bootable floppy (like memtest does) ?
I would be very happy to find a program that can boot from a floppy,
so I'll make all my ext2fs partitions on the disk, with nothing on it.
Then the program will boot from the floppy disk and check all the
ext2fs partitions in a loop.
Thank you,
Alex