CentOS - Aug 2007 - Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

Hi All,
   Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.?

One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while
using RH 7.2.

    This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in
CentOS.
    Is there an alternate (correct) syntax or is there a new (better) way
to check harddisk health before CentOS installation?

Please help me and it is very urgent requirement for me

--Regards
S.Balaji

We have all of the disk tools (seatools, etc) on the same PXE loader that we use
to do our kickstarts, so we simply use the disktools from the manufacturer to
test the drives before kickstarting a system.

If you tell me what manufacturer's HDs you use I can email you a .img file
for their particular 'disk tool' that you can use memdisk to boot over
the network.

Thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Balaji
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:45 AM
To: CentOS at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

Hi All,
   Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.?

One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while
using RH 7.2.

    This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in
CentOS.
    Is there an alternate (correct) syntax or is there a new (better) way
to check harddisk health before CentOS installation?

Please help me and it is very urgent requirement for me

--Regards
S.Balaji





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