finding bad blocks on a raw device

From: Paul LaMadeleine <plamadeleine_at_lightbridge.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:49:25 -0500

Hi,

        My oracle DBAs have loaded some data onto a raw device and they say that
oracle is complaining about a bad block on the device. I can't seem to
find any command that will safely check the device for bad blocks. the
kicker here is that the raw device is one partition of a raid 5 set off a
HSG80 controller. I can find no errors reported by the OS or controllers.

        Is there any way I can check this?

        thanks,

        Paul

ps - the dba's don't want to lose the data
Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 19:50:45 NZST