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Best way to completely test (non-SMART) drive in NetBSD ?

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Subject: Best way to completely test (non-SMART) drive in NetBSD ?
From: vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:07:38 -0400

So to be clear, this is vintage hardware, SCSI, and spinning rust.

I suppose I could dd random write the entire rdev, reboot, and dd read the entire rdev into /dev/null and watch for device errors ?

Is there anything more succinct ?  Something in pkgsrc that would be fairly agnostic ?

Thanks.

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