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Pc-Check
Diagnostics for AT-Style Personal Computers
The final section of the screen is filled with the bottom of the error log
(most recently logged information).
4.5.6
Read Verify Test
The Read Verify Test checks the media of the currently selected hard
disk drive for bad sectors etc. This test causes the device physically to
read the media but NOT transfer the data to the host controller. This
results in faster testing, with much the same benefits. However, unlike
the Read Test, this test does not test the device’s ability to transfer
data to the host computer.
See “Read Test” for a description of the screen layout.
Note: This test cannot be run on non-IDE drives and drives connected
via custom controllers. When run on these drives, this test will
display an appropriate error message and set the result of the
test to N/A.
4.5.7
Non-Destructive Write Test
WARNING
Please ensure you have a valid up-to-date backup of your
data before running this test. If this test is interrupted by
power loss or user reboot, data corruption will occur.
This is a media class test. Although this test is theoretically safe, it does
involve temporary changes to the disk, and is therefore vulnerable to the
effects of power loss etc. Therefore the user is requested to repeat the
challenge key ‘YES’ in all upper case before the test executes. This
challenge will be presented on entry to the test (in interactive mode) and
at the start of burn-in (in burn-in mode).
This test will take approximately double the time which the Destructive
Write Test takes to complete (unless, of course, media tests are set to
test by duration, in which case, they will both take the same amount of
time to complete).
See “Read Test” for a description of the screen layout.
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