06-03-2006, 02:58 PM
you need a mountable partition (prefered a linux filesystem, e.g. ext3)
(assumes that your partition the third on first IDE drive )
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt
then start stress from the /mnt directory to test you hd
(assumes that your partition the third on first IDE drive )
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt
then start stress from the /mnt directory to test you hd