On 12/7/2012 9:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Chuck Burns wrote: > >> dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0 >> >> ^^^ There's your "badblocks" program. Any hard drive made in the last >> decade have been self-remapping.. > > That should be /dev/zero. And this will be very slow, going one > 512-byte block at a time. Using a 64K or 128K buffer (bs=128K) will > speed it up tremendously. my 0 key gets stuck sometimes.. sue me. :P -- Chuck Burns <break19_at_gmail.com>Received on Sat Dec 08 2012 - 11:07:00 UTC
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