On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:38 +0000, T. Horsnell wrote: > Can anyone recommend a utility which will let me do SCSI-disk things > like surface scan, low-level format, bad-block re-vector and such? > Rather like the scu utility on my Alpha box. > smartctl cant do this stuff, and I've so far located Joerg Schilling's > sformat-3.4 (which was last modified in 1998 and which currently wont > compile on my Opteron box) and the Seagate 'seatools' utility (which > doesnt offer low-level bad-block testing/revectoring). > > Any advice appreciated. > > Cheers, > Terry > I believe smartctl (8) can help you. Gilboa
