Hard disk utility for Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc 10
new hard drive from Sun.
The original question was:
I am looking for a utility similar to Norton on a PC to bandage a hard
drive on a Sparc 10 until I receive a new drive. Doesn't a similar
utility come with Solaris 2.5.1?
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Thanks for Replies Received from:
Stewart:stewart.mcleod@boeing.com
Shriman Gurung:sg@datcon.co.uk -- ext. 477
Rich Kulawiec:rsk@itw.com
Dieter Gobbers: gobbers@faw.uni-ulm.de
Birger:birger@vest.sdata.no
Marc S. Gibian: marc.gibian@acm.org
Tony C. Wu:tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw
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Most people suggested "fsck" or "format."
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>There isn't much to be done with modern SCSI devices. You can't map out
>defects, as the drive manages the defects internally. Once you see a
>defect on a modern SCSI disk, it means that the disk is truly sick.
>If you try to map out a block, you only map out a logical 'SCSI' block.
>The drive may well reuse the same physical block on the platter for
>another logical block if the drive doesn't know that the physical
>block is bad. And if you get to see that the block is bad, the disks
>internal bad block map is propably full already....
>What you can do is to repartition the drive so you don't use the areas
>with bad blocks. Wastes a lot of disk, but......
>For other kinds of drives, you can use the defect management in the
>format command to manually map out bad blocks. Or you can run an
>analyze pass that will find and map out bad blocks. It won't
>copy off the data in those bad blocks, so beware!
>Birger
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