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