Testing disk I/O?

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know about the smart tools, but they run disk tests
> pretty much entirely within the disk drive (I think?).
>
> Is there a good tool for testing the whole disk I/O
> system that will wind up exercising the disk, the
> controller/chipset, etc? (Hopefully available in the
> fedora repos).
>
> I have a feeling something is going funny in the head
> on my system and the smart disk tests report all OK
> (as does a few passes of memtest86+). I want to get
> the motherboard into the mix now.

Did you do a long or short SMART test? I've had drives the report OK
on the short but fail the long test. I figure you ran the long test
but since you didn't say I wanted to make sure.

Richard