> > Cry wrote: >> Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive before RMA >> back to vendor/manufacturer? I need something that keeps going when it >> reaches >> a bad block. The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random >> numbers. >> It shouldn't need to be nursed along. Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list <at> rabbit.us> writes: > How about `badblocks -svw` ? Nice. I'd been using dd but that is a PIA. Don't know why I hadn't seen badblocks before. I'll add when I give it a whir.: badblocks -svw -o bad_block_list Thanks! Cry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
