John P. Looney said on Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:49:42AM +0000:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:41:17AM +0000, Dave O Connor mentioned:
> > Anyone know of a good suite of tools for testing hardware? For linux is good,
> > but a bootable stup (like memtest86, except for RAM, CPU, disks, etc) would be
> > better. I've a machine here crashing pseudo-randomly, and am pretty sure it's
> > hardware-related.
>> Something like a gcc build will pick it up - it checks the source you
> produce for bad stuff. Alas, all that tells you is "yes, most likely it is
> hardware".
>Hm. I was thinking more along the lines of assuming it's hardware, and having
something that does something akin to memtest86, and then fires reandom reads
and writes at your disks, and says "Ooops, your SCSI controller looks a bit
wonky.". Something like a sysadmin with more hardware experience. Yeah,
that'll do.
- DoC
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