Best Linux Hardware Diagnostics?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday August 3, 2005 @08:54AM from the stress-it-until-it-breaks dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I've been running Linux for a little while and usually hardware problems have shown up quite easily - kernel panic, no module, no networking, etc. - but recently I've encountered some problems with network disk access causing very high load, which I think might be hardware related. Under Windows I'd fire up SANDRA or the like and run a full system scan. I did a quick search and nothing really stood out. I was wondering if any Linux gurus out there would like to share their expertise on Linux diagnostics?"

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Re:If you need to ask.... by karnal · 2005-08-03 09:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Actually, I would think "World Class" would mean the terminal would scream at you if you had an issue:

"HEY, YOUR HARD DRIVE IS FUCKED!"

That would truly rock. Instead, today you can only sift through "/dev/hda: device not ready" errors in the logs... :)

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Karnal