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From: Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: data-preserving HDD diagnostic program?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:10:13 -0400
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I originally asked:
>> Is there a good FreeBSD HDD diagnostic program?

>> The SATA III disk drive I'd like to test is either partially failing
>> or has corrupted data.  MS Win10's "repair" of the drive isn't fixing
>> it. For that and other reasons, I suspect the drive has partially died
>> (such as maybe 1 head died or something).

to which Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> kindly replied:
> badblocks can use a read-only mode and also a non-destructive write mode.

"badblocks"?  'pkg rquery %n badblocks' finds no such program.
 -WBE