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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Access to OD ECC statistics??
Message-ID: <12842@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 03:37:14 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.232841.9991@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Dec11.232841.9991@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>Is there any way to obtain error correction statistics on
>read/writes for optical disks?

  /etc/disk will give you ECC statistics in return for the correct 
options. You have to own the /dev/rod?? device to make it work, though,
or be root. Beware that /etc/disk also has options for "initialize"
and "bulk erase", though... 

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