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From: kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander)
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Subject: Format utility (or disk analysis)?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 14:22:21 GMT
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Does anyone know of a utility that would
allow us to check for bad disk sectors on HP9000
model 340s.  In my (albeit minimal) purusing of the
extensive documentation, I couldn't find such a 
utility.  There's nothing in either of the Sys.
Admin. manuals in the index under "format", or
"bad block".

The "File System" section of the Sys. Admin. Concepts
manual didn't indicate that there was such a thing
as a 'bad blocks' sector on the hard disk.  

What does one do if he/she suspects that a portion
of his/her hard disk has developed some bad sectors?

Only reference of 'defective blocks' was in the
mediainit man page.
-- 
Kris Olander
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