From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 11:55:53 2003 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 3321C37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay1.softcomca.com (relay1.softcomca.com [168.144.1.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7822043F3F for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akanwar@digitarchy.com) Received: from M2W085.mail2web.com ([168.144.251.196]) by relay1.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:55:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4910-220037316185551393@M2W085.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 68.111.37.3 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "akanwar@digitarchy.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:55:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jul 2003 18:55:51.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[E0B92460:01C34BCB] Subject: how to check for bad blocks on IDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: akanwar@digitarchy.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:55:53 -0000 Hi all, =20 Is there a way in freebsd to check for bad blocks=2E Linux can do this via= a -c flag to mkfs; but newfs for FreeBSD does not seem to have this functionality=2E The issue is that I have a IDE disk that I suspect to be bad )but there have been no ATA resets or logged errors so far)=2E I either need to do a = bad block check while creating a filesystem or some other diagnostic tool that= can do a low level check on the disk=2E Thanks, -ansh -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E