Addendum: Looking for method to scan for bad blocks.

From: Maglinger, Paul <PMAGLINGER_at_scvl.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:59:12 -0500

My thanks to all who have replied thus far. A few people have
suggested using scu, but the man pages for scu state:

"Data corruption can occur when the write back cache is enabled using
the scu utility. Do not enable the write back cache."

I had another suggestion for using the dd command, but I'm thinking that
would require me to have a large area to copy to and for a large drive
it would take a long time and require a lot of space.

Any other thoughts on this, please?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:PMAGLINGER_at_scvl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2005 01:15 PM
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> Subject: Looking for method to scan for bad blocks.
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> Running Tru64 5.1B PK3 on ES40 with HSG80 controllers. I'm looking for
> a way to scan a mirrored disk for bad blocks without going into
> single-user mode or disabling write back cache... basically without
> making any system changes or taking the system down. Suggestions,
> please?
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