From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 7:27: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B529B37B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.volker.de (pD900DF9E.dip.t-dialin.net [217.0.223.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED7343E3B for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from argus.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by argus.volker.de (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id g8LEQrwM000524 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:26:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:26:53 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I know a disk is bad? Message-Id: <20020921162653.42c9b748.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: <5135932470.20020919122234@yahoo.com.sg> References: <5135932470.20020919122234@yahoo.com.sg> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I detect a bad sector on a disk. Are there any other > utilities that can be used to detect such error? most harddisk vendors have some kind of testing tool on their websites. I know of IBM, Maxtor and Seagate having this, the others might have it, too. -volker -- Please don't cc me: I read the lists and don't need your message twice :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message