test-suite tests disk

[silent-ion]

Hi there.
I want to test disks from test-suite.
But servers are very different, one may have only 2 disks, another may have 3,4,5 and so on disks. I want to ask the user which drive he want to test.

How can I do that?

thanks.

[silent-ion]

for example How can I add hdparm-read to test-suite?

[Michael]

The hdparm test profile will automatically prompt you when it detects removable devices / multiple disks, assuming you are using PTS 2.0 or newer.

The simplest way though for all test profiles would to adjust the EnvironmentDirectory in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml to point to some directory on the disk you wish to test.

[silent-ion]

The hdparm test profile will automatically prompt you when it detects removable devices / multiple disks, assuming you are using PTS 2.0 or newer.

The simplest way though for all test profiles would to adjust the EnvironmentDirectory in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml to point to some directory on the disk you wish to test.

Hmm. Look:

grep -R hdparm-read /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts/test-suite

There is no test-suite with hdparm-read.
When I try to add it, the test-suite doesnt work properly.
Because when test-profile runs from test-suite - no questions are asked.
Example:

$ vim /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts/test-suite/my-test-disk.xml
[cut header] 
       <RunTest>
                <Test>hdparm-read</Test>
        </RunTest>
$ phoronix-test-suite run my-test-disk
hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v9.15

Usage:  hdparm  [options] [device] ..

Because <RunTest> has no <Argument> parameter. But I can't specify <Argument> because I don't know how many disks(and type of disk) servers will have.