Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:13:30 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org '" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HD bad sector Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031310530.30136-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20001202190410.00891ed0@smtp.magix.com.sg>
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Spades wrote:
> Are there any freebsd program applications to test the
> integrity of an IDE disk drive, test for errors or bad sectors?
Drop to single user mode (shutdown now) and do:
dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=64k
That will scan your entire drive, and errors will be displayed on the
console.
You are due for a new disk.
> bash-2.03# Dec 2 18:09:26 dslglobal /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk#
> 53534623 status=59 error=40
Upgrade to bash-2.04 :-)
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
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