On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:49:00PM -0700, Bri wrote:
>  is there a utility in NetBSD that will perform a 'surface scan' to check
> the physical integrity of a disk?
> 
>  I could not find one, nor a option in FSCK.
> 
>  Apologies if I missed something obvious.

dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null
will read the whole disk. Maybe you're looking for a better check (like
read/write/read) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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