Re: Serious Crash last Friday

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:51:00PM +0200, Henrik Steffen wrote:
> > excuse me, but what is a "non-destructive badblocks (or
> > whatever) test" - and how can I do this?
>
> If you're using linux, try "man badblocks".
>
> On Solaris, a similar command is diskscan.
>
> Other systems will have other names.  I can't recall how to do this
> on BSD, and I can't find anything in my local man db at the moment.
> I'll bet someone else here knows.

My Buslogic/Mylex SCSI controller card beeps when it hits a bad SCSI
block.  I didn't know what that sound was until about the 10th time.
:-)

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