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From: banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [Q] dd to find bad sectors?
Date: 22 Jun 1994 04:50:56 GMT
Organization: Santa Cruz Community Internet
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Whats the communal opinion of using dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null
in order to locate bad sectors on the disk?


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