Checking hard disks for bad sectors?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Chad M Stewart <cms at balius.com> writes:

> I've wiped Linux from my older server and am going to be putting
> FreeBSD 4.9 on it.  I've got 4 drives of various sizes and some are
> quite old.  I'd like to run some sort of utility on the drives to
> check for and mark bad sectors.  Is there something in the ports
> collection to enable me to do this?

Well, there are some ways to do this, but you're almost certainly
wrong about wanting to do it at all.

See the FAQ entry 
 "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?": 
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE