DISKSCAN(1M)DISKSCAN(1M)NAME
diskscan - perform surface analysis
SYNOPSIS
diskscan [-W] [-n] [-y] raw_device
DESCRIPTION
diskscan is used by the system administrator to perform surface analy‐
sis on a portion of a hard disk. The disk portion may be a raw parti‐
tion or slice; it is identified using its raw device name. By default,
the specified portion of the disk is read (non-destructive) and errors
reported on standard error. In addition, a progress report is printed
on standard out. The list of bad blocks should be saved in a file and
later fed into addbadsec(1M), which will remap them.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-n
Causes diskscan to suppress linefeeds when printing progress
information on standard out.
-W
Causes diskscan to perform write and read surface analysis. This
type of surface analysis is destructive and should be invoked
with caution.
-y
Causes diskscan to suppress the warning regarding destruction of
existing data that is issued when -W is used.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
raw_device
The address of the disk drive (see FILES).
FILES
The raw device should be /dev/rdsk/c?[t?]d?[ps]?. See disks(1M) for an
explanation of SCSI and IDE device naming conventions.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌───────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├───────────────┼─────────────────┤
│Architecture │ x86 │
└───────────────┴─────────────────┘
SEE ALSOaddbadsec(1M), disks(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M),
attributes(5)NOTES
The format(1M) utility is available to format, label, analyze, and
repair SCSI disks. This utility is included with the diskscan, addbad‐
sec(1M), fdisk(1M), and fmthard(1M) commands available for x86. To for‐
mat an IDE disk, use the DOS format utility; however, to label, ana‐
lyze, or repair IDE disks on x86 systems, use the Solaris format(1M)
utility.
Feb 24, 1998 DISKSCAN(1M)