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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!not-for-mail From: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Geoff Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] dd to find bad sectors? Date: 23 Jun 1994 12:25:06 +1000 Organization: CSIRO Division Of Manufacturing Technology, Australia Lines: 25 Sender: root@mlb.dmt.csiro.au Distribution: world Message-ID: <2uarq2$333@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> References: <2u8fvg$e91@nic.scruz.net> Reply-To: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au NNTP-Posting-Host: atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article e91@nic.scruz.net, banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal) writes: > Whats the communal opinion of using dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null > in order to locate bad sectors on the disk? > > dd if=/dev/rxxxx of=/dev/null bs=1k conv=noerror, sync the bs can vary depending on how long you want it to take. Geoff --------- __&__ / \ Geoff Lamb, CSIRO Div of Manufacturing Tech, | | Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, Vic, 3072, Australia. | (o)(o) Internet: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au C .---_) Phone: +61 3 662 7795 | |.___| Fax: +61 3 662 7851 | \__/ /_____\ /_____/ \ / \ Segmentation fault (core dumped)