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

To: vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Best way to completely test (non-SMART) drive in NetBSD ?
From: Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:54:28 +0300

> On 18 Aug 2024, at 04:08, vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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 ?
> 

Why not simply attempt a low-format, namely writing zeroes everywhere?  You would also get write errors that way. There could be appropriate tools to do that using alternate or network boot but I suppose dd can do exactly the same.

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