hardware

Hardware tools

This repository contains tools for using, configuring or fine tuning various types of specific hardware, both external and internal. Please consider new packages for inclusion only if they allow unique operations on certain hardware, of a specific class or vendor. Especially GUI packages should go to the corresponding GUI project, unless they exclusively meet the previous condition. https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/SLFO_Main/ SUSE:SLFO:Main

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLFO:/Main/standard/ diskscan

Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors

DiskScan is a Unix/Linux tool to scan a block device and check if there are unreadable sectors, in addition it uses read latency times as an assessment for a near failure as sectors that are problematic to read usually entail many retries. This can be used to assess the state of the disk and maybe decide on a replacement in advance to its imminent failure. The disk self test may or may not pick up on such clues depending on the disk vendor decision making logic.