From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 04:04:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 02D9F16A4CF for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.balius.com (rrcs-nys-24-24-63-86.biz.rr.com [24.24.63.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B587F43D2D for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cms@balius.com) Received: from conversion-daemon.peppy.amotken.com by peppy.amotken.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) id <0HUK00F01E5U1P@peppy.amotken.com> (original mail from cms@balius.com) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:00:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.199] by peppy.amotken.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPSA id <0HUK0090LEO3JK@peppy.amotken.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:00:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:04:01 -0500 From: Chad M Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Operating-System: Darwin Hagrid 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0 X-Chads-Rule: If you use Outlook, my rules automatically put your messages in my Junk Mail folder X-Mac: It Just Rocks Subject: Checking hard disks for bad sectors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:04:15 -0000 I've wiped Linux from my older server and am going to be putting FreeBSD 4.9 on it. I've got 4 drives of various sizes and some are quite old. I'd like to run some sort of utility on the drives to check for and mark bad sectors. Is there something in the ports collection to enable me to do this? Thanks, Chad