lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (02/19/90)
In <27116@cup.portal.com>, Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes: >Are there any utilities for the Amiga that will verify the integrity >of the file system for an entire disk? I need something that will >at minimum attempt to read every part of my hard disk to verify that >there are no bad sectors on the disk. There are two different things you are asking for here. The first; verification of the file system, right down to and including every single data block, can be done easily with stuff you already have. The command: COPY DH0: NILL: ALL will cause every directory, subdirectory, and file to be read. Any hard errors on the disk, that happen to lie within the file system, will cause a requester or other form of error indication. The second thing you are asking is if there is a utility to read all the blocks on the drive. Because Amigados neither knows nor cares about anything ouside its file system on a disk, the above method could leave a lot of magnetic territory uncovered. There have been a few utilities around to do a disk check, and recently I wrote one myself. I'll post it to sources and binaries. It is quite fast, since it reads a cylinder at a time, and only narrows the granularity down to blocks when it detects an error. It will test both hard drives and floppies, and tests all blocks on the disk. -larry -- Gallium Arsenide is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) (02/20/90)
Are there any utilities for the Amiga that will verify the integrity of the file system for an entire disk? I need something that will at minimum attempt to read every part of my hard disk to verify that there are no bad sectors on the disk. Thanks, Will (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)