From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 18:13:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A150337B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB32DUF40966; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:13:33 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:13:30 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Spades Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: Re: HD bad sector In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20001202190410.00891ed0@smtp.magix.com.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :-) -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message