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32.\"     @(#)drtest.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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34.Dd June 5, 1993
35.Dt DRTEST 8
36.Os BSD 4.2
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm drtest
39.Nd standalone disk test program
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41.Nm Drtest
42is a standalone program used to read a disk
43track by track.
44It was primarily intended as a test program
45for new standalone drivers, but has shown
46useful in other contexts as well, such as
47verifying disks and running speed
48tests. For example, when a disk has been formatted
49(by
50.Xr format 8 ) ,
51you can check that
52hard errors has been taken care of by running
53.Nm drtest .
54No hard errors should be found, but in many cases
55quite a few soft
56.Tn ECC
57errors will be reported.
58.Pp
59While
60.Nm drtest
61is running, the cylinder number is printed on
62the console for every 10th cylinder read.
63.Sh EXAMPLE
64A sample run of
65.Xr drtest
66is shown below.
67In this example (using a 750),
68.Nm drtest
69is loaded from the root file system;
70usually it
71will be loaded from the machine's
72console storage device.  Boldface means user input.
73As usual, ``#'' and ``@'' may be used to edit input.
74.Pp
75.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
76.Li \&>>> Ns Sy B/3
77.Li \&%%
78.Li \&loading hk(0,0)boot
79.Li \&Boot
80.Li \&: Sy \&hk(0,0)drtest
81.Li Test program for stand-alone up and hp driver
82
83.Li Debugging level (1=bse, 2=ecc, 3=bse+ecc)?
84.Li Enter disk name [type(adapter,unit),\ e.g.\ hp(1,3)]? Sy hp(0,0)
85.Li Device data: #cylinders=1024, #tracks=16, #sectors=32
86.Li Testing hp(0,0), chunk size is 16384 bytes.
87.Em (chunk\ size\ is\ the\ number\ of\ bytes read per disk access)
88.Li Start ...Make sure hp(0,0) is online
89.Li \ ...
90.Em (errors are reported as they occur)
91.Li \ ...
92.Em (...program restarts to allow checking other disks)
93.Em (...to abort halt machine with \&^P)
94.Ed
95.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
96The diagnostics are intended to be self explanatory. Note, however, that
97the device number
98in the diagnostic messages is identified as
99.Em typeX
100instead of
101.Em type(a,u)
102where
103.Ar X
104\&= a*8+u, e.g., hp(1,3) becomes hp11.
105.Sh SEE ALSO
106.Xr format 8 ,
107.Xr bad144 8
108.Sh AUTHOR
109Helge Skrivervik
110.Sh HISTORY
111The
112.Nm
113command appeared in
114.Bx 4.2 .
115