> It would be cool to have a program to read every sector and rewrite it
> on a raw partition to freshen up bits on disks.

Won't (for example) `dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/rsd0a bs=32k conv=notrunc`
do just that?  You probably don't need the `conv=notrunc' when using the
raw partition.

J

PS.  I haven't tried this on a raw partition, just on a file where it
works perfectly.

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