Why tying to use this tools? Smartmontools and a badblocks test is good for every type of diagnostics. maybe hdparm for some more tests. Booting a sysrescd and you have all of them together. There is no need for the WD tools. Ok not nice to hear about that fact, that WD did not support any other OS, but I my opinion thats nothing to concern about.



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We recently put two Western Digital 2Tb drives in a system we were
building. Suspecting a problem, we tried to run the Western Digital
standalone diagnostics on the drive (note: this was before Linux - or
any other operating system - was installed). Upshot: the diagnostics for
those drives only run under Windows.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/western-digital-disk-diagnostic-tools-are-windows-only/9235

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/wd_windows_only_diagnostics/


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but then hopefully, they use as basic an OS, that could be booted via PXE. Any other is useless IMO. I know the seatools for example, they are not useful for ISP level operation, to test thousands of drives, because it fails while booting over network and there is no possibility for scripting and automation. Because of that, a specialized sysrescd or similar is a very good way to test the drive fitness when you have more than only a few drives to test.
And when bb fails, then there is no question about the tool. Only about the hardware. Controller, cabeling, port settings, hdd.

and as ISP you didnt have only drives of WD, have you? So a tool, which can test other manufactures too, is in my opinion much better than a special tool of the manufacturer itselfs. That was the point, Im talking about.

Or have you only a few drives to test? Because this is the ISP list. And ISPs normally have tens of thousands hard drives to test, like in our case.



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On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:06:25 +0200, rm@keyweb.de said:

> Why tying to use this tools?

Because it is (used to be) a simple, go/nogo test of a drive's fitness.

It was approved and written by the manuafacturer.

It tests in a known, controlled environment.

> Smartmontools and a badblocks test is good
> for every type of diagnostics

It was because of issues testing with bb that we wanted to run the
manufacturer's diagnostics.

> Ok not nice to hear about that fact, that WD did not support
> any other OS, but I my opinion thats nothing to concern about.

You're missing the point entirely. I'm not asking them to support Linux
(or Windows, MSDOS, VMS, RT11 or OS/8). I'm asking them to continue to
produce a standalone, bootable ISO that will test their drives, just like
the support page for the drive in question claims that they do.


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On 8/7/10 6:59 AM, Robert Menger wrote:
> but then hopefully, they use as basic an OS, that could be booted via PXE. Any other is useless IMO. I know the seatools for example, they are not useful for ISP level operation, to test thousands of drives, because it fails while booting over network and there is no possibility for scripting and automation. Because of that, a specialized sysrescd or similar is a very good way to test the drive fitness when you have more than only a few drives to test.
> And when bb fails, then there is no question about the tool. Only about the hardware. Controller, cabeling, port settings, hdd.
>
> and as ISP you didnt have only drives of WD, have you? So a tool, which can test other manufactures too, is in my opinion much better than a special tool of the manufacturer itselfs. That was the point, Im talking about.
>
> Or have you only a few drives to test? Because this is the ISP list. And ISPs normally have tens of thousands hard drives to test, like in our case.
>


So you can only qualify as an ISP if you have tens of thousands of drives?

~Seth


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On Saturday 07 Aug 2010 14:59:42 Robert Menger wrote:
> but then hopefully, they use as basic an OS, that could be booted via PXE. Any other is useless IMO. I know the seatools for example, they are not useful for ISP level operation, to test thousands of drives, because it fails while booting over network and there is no possibility for scripting and automation. Because of that, a specialized sysrescd or similar is a very good way to test the drive fitness when you have more than only a few drives to test.
> And when bb fails, then there is no question about the tool. Only about the hardware. Controller, cabeling, port settings, hdd.
>
> and as ISP you didnt have only drives of WD, have you? So a tool, which can test other manufactures too, is in my opinion much better than a special tool of the manufacturer itselfs. That was the point, Im talking about.
>
> Or have you only a few drives to test? Because this is the ISP list. And ISPs normally have tens of thousands hard drives to test, like in our case.

Eh.. completely off topic but what sort of experience did you get from testing that sort of number of disks. Can you make any general deductions? You often get these "oh stay away from XYZ" but then you also hear that infamous story of someone having been to the factory and everything gets made in the same place and just different labels..

mimo


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