On 16 March 2017 at 07:44, Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> wrote:

The output looks good to me.


You should be able to run the long test, even through the USB interface. Good point about the firmware update, although a quick look on the web doesn't indicate an update is available. Many disk drives firmware can be updated from Linux with the hdparm tool (hdparm --fwdownload), although it may be easier to use the Windows or mac tools provided by the manufacturer, if you have those OSes available to you.

I had one batch of drives that needed a firmware update.  The drives were all in USB cases, but to apply the firmware updates using the vendor's utility I had to remove each drive from the USB case and install in an old PC.

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