system excercising/burn-in tests?

[Paul Lussier]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at iname.com> writes:

>    I've use memtest86 to exercise RAM, system bus, and, to a lesser
>    extent, the CPU.  For hard disks, I use "badblocks -v -s -w".  For

Hmmm, I had forgotten about badblocks.  Thanks :) Of course,
presumably mke2fs -c does essentially the same thing.

>    I take it you're buying whitebox systems, then?

More or less. 

>    Check with the component manufacturers.  They will often include
>    various tools.

Yeah, the problem is we need to essentially hand them a CD or floppy
to boot the systems off of to run the burn-in test.  These utilities
are all rather independant, and can't, afaik, be strung together in
series to be run from a CD.  At least not without great pain and
gnashing of teeth :)

Thanks!
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Seeya,
Paul