Drive Fitness Test

Disk check and fix tools

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT


How to create bootable DFT diskette using Linux
The Drive Fitness Test image file (dft-vxxximg.bin) includes a DOS-based Drive Fitness Test program. Running the Linux Disk Dump (dd) utility, creates an DOS-bootable diskette that contains the Drive Fitness Test Utility. A formatted 1.44 MB diskette is required to create the diskette. The Drive Fitness Test is provided for testing our disk drives. The test will not overwrite customer data.
Restrictions: The users guide contains detailed information on the current restrictions for the Drive Fitness Test. See the link at the bottom of this page.
To create a bootable DFT diskette under Linux:
Download the bootable version of DFT (dft-vxxximg.bin) into a known directory on your PC.
Insert a formatted 1.44 MB diskette into your disk drive.
Make sure that the floppy disk is unmounted.
Change directory to where you saved the DFT image.
Run the Disk Dump (dd) utility with the following parameters: dd if=dft-vxxximg.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=8k Note: /dev/fd0 is the first diskette drive. Use /dev/fd1 if you would like to use the second diskette drive to create the DFT diskette.
The bootable DFT diskette will now be created, Note this could take a couple of minutes .
See the users guide for information on how to run the Drive Fitness Test. To use the Drive Fitness Test with our SCSI hard disk drives you must have the correct ASPI drivers installed. Please refer to the users guide for a list of supported controllers.
Drive Fitness Test Users Guide


Drive Fitness Test
Version 4.16
The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (Note: other DFT restoration utilities may overwrite data.)
DownloadsTo run the DFT, you must download the appropriate creator or image and create a self-booting media.
You may create the media under Windows (using the Windows OS version) or Linux (using the binary image), but you must start your system with the DOS-bootable diskette to run DFT.
Drive Fitness Test User's Guide (426 K)Guide to using DFT
Diskette creator for Windows OS (2,130 K)Creates self-booting media to run DFT Read Me Having trouble creating the bootable diskette?
Binary diskette image for non-Windows OS (1,440 K)Creates self-booting media to run DFT Read Me
CD image (2,720 K)Creates bootable CD for Linux, Windows and other operating systems ( requires CD-RW drive and software).

DFT provides 3 media types to run on different platform (e.g. Windows, Linux, Dos...)
* Windows Application
* Bootable CD
* Bootable Disk

Linux Command - fdisk, File system management

>> partition the hard drive, list all the partition tables
# fdisk -l

>> Enter specified partions, press p to display all the partions
# fdisk /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dda97

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 1044 8185117+ 8e Linux LVM ==> LVM is a Linux Volumn Manager, Can support RAID architecture

>> format the file system
# mke2fs

>> physically mount the file system
# mount /dev/hdc1 /vm