Subject: Re: HDD - SMART status
To: NetBSD-current <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Xavier HUMBERT <xavier.humbert@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/26/2003 18:18:51
jbernard@mines.edu (Jim Bernard)
>   FWIW, I have an IBM 60gxp drive that develops a new bad block or two about
> every 6 months. 

While we're talking about that, besides checking SMART status, is it a
good idea to "dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/null conv=noerror" let's say in
weekly.local, to ensure data integrity ?

TIA,

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