[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test

[John Drescher]

> Before I take it in to the hardware gurus I want to be sure I've run
> appropriate tests. I ran memtest with no errors.

Did you do 1 pass or several days. 1 pass is not at all good at
finding marginal ram.

> What disk test should I run
> that will be a non-destructive test? And, when I run it, do I need to have
> the backend and MySQL shut down?
>

Can you post the SMART raw data for the disk

smartctrl --all /dev/mydevice

where my device is the drive you want to test possibly sda

John