From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 20:31:23 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 827E816A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ohwy.com (ns1.ohwy.com [12.154.210.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3DE43FD7 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rduvall@onlinehighways.net) Message-ID: <000701c3a031$00b09500$f901a8c0@ws21> From: "Rick Duvall" To: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:31:21 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes 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: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 04:31:23 -0000 I have some backup tapes that I have been using each once per week for about 8 months. I am getting errors when running amverify on a couple of them. To be sure that my tapes are still good and not just the system giving me fits, it would be nice if I could run a program that would write bits to the tape in question and try to read them back, telling me which blocks on the tape are bad. Is there such a tool that does this? I guess it would be kind of like a scandisk is to a DOS Floppy as what I am talking about is to a Unix Tape. Sincerely, Rick Duvall Online Highways System Administrator (541) 997-8401 x 111