[rescue] How to "exercise" a drive in an Ultra 30?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:46:47PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> So here's the deal - I got these two low-cost IBM 9 gig SCA SCSI drives
> a while ago, and I wanted to put on one in my Ultra 30, so I did. Now
> the drive is installed, but someone on the list mentioned that they had
> problems with their IBM (for SGI) 9 Gig drives from HiTechCafe (like
> mine), so I wanted to "exercise" the drives and see how they do in the
> Ultra 30.

Wouldn't bonnie or iobench be useful.  If you really want to beat on it (or
are worried that the program is not threaded or concurrent enough) run two
or three of them in parallel.

./patrick