Re: Scsi errors with Megaraid 300-8x

[Johan Groth]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Nope, r+w will write over everything on the disk, but I have found -the- 
> most effective way to see if a disk is good or not.  I'd rather have the 
> disk die to that test rather than using it in production and finding it 
> dies with my data on it.

Hmm, we both should read the man page of badblocks a bit better :).
I found this:

-n     Use non-destructive read-write mode.  By default only a 
non-destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined 
with the -w option, as they are mutually exclusive.


Cheers,
Johan
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