> If you pick up
>
> ftp://ftp.bitmover.com/pub/lmdd.tar.gz
>
> you will get a Linux binary and the source code (the only docs that are current,
> I'm afraid) for a tool which was designed to deal with this problem. You
> can do this
>
> lmdd of=XXX bs=10m move=120m opat=1
>
> To read it back and make sure the pattern is there
>
> lmdd if=XXX bs=10m move=120m ipat=1
>
> You can also read it back using random offsets within the file, something
> which sometimes catches an error or two:
>
> lmdd if=XXX bs=512 rand=120m count=1000 ipat=1
I grabbed a copy of lmdd and tried it on:
- dual-PII SMP, 128MB Mem, 2 x 333Mhz.
w/
on-board Adaptec two-ch. AIC7895 UW controller
RedHat 5.2 Install
2.2.10-ac1 kernel
(hirsch@pii) /tmp : lmdd of=test1.file bs=10m move=500m opat=1
524.2880 MB in 34.1190 secs, 15.3665 MB/sec
(hirsch@pii) /tmp : lmdd if=test1.file bs=10m move=500m ipat=1
524.2880 MB in 30.9426 secs, 16.9439 MB/sec
(hirsch@pii) /tmp : lmdd if=test1.file bs=10m rand=500m ipat=1
..
(hang on, it's still churning away while I type this on the same box).
..
(still going? I'll web-surf a bit..)
..
( ok, the heck with it..)
^C
10825.4986 MB in 735.9394 secs, 14.7098 MB/sec
Hey, Larry, I though it was supposed to stop on its own after 500MB? <g>
Anyway, as you'll see, I was unable to trip anything up. Maybe the
corruption is some sort of IDE thing?
Steve
p.s. - Larry, thanks for slinging this out there!
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