Summary: DU equivalent of "format"

From: Hugh Conner <hmc_at_cee.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:55:22 +0000 (GMT)

I asked

>
> Does DU 3.2 have a equivalent of the Sun "format" command to allow me for
> example to run a read test on a disk. I can't find anything in any of the
> man pages which would do the trick.
>

Thanks to everyone who replied and told me to use the "scu" command, with
the "verify media" option. This did exactly what I wanted and showed up a
bad block on the disk as I had suspected.

-- 
	Hugh

Received on Thu Jan 23 1997 - 13:05:39 NZDT