On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:04:47PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > Too bad the pc Unixes don't have a format command like Sun has had > for Solaris/SunOS....tells the hard drive to 'format' and then tests > with a number of test patterns.
This can be done on Linux using badblocks(8). It has a read-write mode that does what you describe. Most of the mk*fs programs also have their own read-only test options. -James _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html