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8.Dd
9.Dt DRTEST 8
10.Os BSD 4.2
11.Sh NAME
12.Nm drtest
13.Nd standalone disk test program
14.Sh DESCRIPTION
15.Nm Drtest
16is a standalone program used to read a disk
17track by track.
18It was primarily intended as a test program
19for new standalone drivers, but has shown
20useful in other contexts as well, such as
21verifying disks and running speed
22tests. For example, when a disk has been formatted
23(by
24.Xr format 8 ) ,
25you can check that
26hard errors has been taken care of by running
27.Nm drtest .
28No hard errors should be found, but in many cases
29quite a few soft
30.Tn ECC
31errors will be reported.
32.Pp
33While
34.Nm drtest
35is running, the cylinder number is printed on
36the console for every 10th cylinder read.
37.Sh EXAMPLE
38A sample run of
39.Xr drtest
40is shown below.
41In this example (using a 750),
42.Nm drtest
43is loaded from the root file system;
44usually it
45will be loaded from the machine's
46console storage device.  Boldface means user input.
47As usual, ``#'' and ``@'' may be used to edit input.
48.Pp
49.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
50.Li \&>>> Ns Sy B/3
51.Li \&%%
52.Li \&loading hk(0,0)boot
53.Li \&Boot
54.Li \&: Sy \&hk(0,0)drtest
55.Li Test program for stand-alone up and hp driver
56
57.Li Debugging level (1=bse, 2=ecc, 3=bse+ecc)?
58.Li Enter disk name [type(adapter,unit),\ e.g.\ hp(1,3)]? Sy hp(0,0)
59.Li Device data: #cylinders=1024, #tracks=16, #sectors=32
60.Li Testing hp(0,0), chunk size is 16384 bytes.
61.Em (chunk\ size\ is\ the\ number\ of\ bytes read per disk access)
62.Li Start ...Make sure hp(0,0) is online
63.Li \ ...
64.Em (errors are reported as they occur)
65.Li \ ...
66.Em (...program restarts to allow checking other disks)
67.Em (...to abort halt machine with \&^P)
68.Ed
69.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
70The diagnostics are intended to be self explanatory. Note, however, that
71the device number
72in the diagnostic messages is identified as
73.Em typeX
74instead of
75.Em type(a,u)
76where
77.Ar X
78\&= a*8+u, e.g., hp(1,3) becomes hp11.
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr format 8 ,
81.Xr bad144 8
82.Sh AUTHOR
83Helge Skrivervik
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87command appeared in
88.Bx 4.2 .
89