badblocks

[Michael Hipp]

I dunno. Open to suggestions. One thing I need to be able to do is run it on 
drives connected via USB and I can't get a reading from the man page on how 
well smartctl can manage that. smartctl seems to demand a lot of the user (me!) 
in terms of knowing the exact hardware being tested on.

   http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html

Michael


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> wouldn't it be easier to use smartctl ?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Michael Hipp<Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>> Anyone use 'badblocks' regularly?
>>
>> If I have a suspect disk and want a go/no-go decision on whether it is a
>> keeper, will it it give me that? What args would you give it?
>>
>