07-27-2001
bad sectors
most times i hear a clicking sound on my hd (somethign like that) i had badsectors ro somethign very near to that. i don't know very much baout solaris but it should be possible like with linxu to start it with only running a shell. then you could check you harddrive.
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zcav(8) System Manager's Manual zcav(8)
NAME
zcav - program to test raw hard drive throughput.
SYNOPSIS
zcav [-b block-size[:chunk-size]] [-c count] [-r [first-block]:last-block] [-w] [-s skip-rate] [-u uid-to-use:gid-to-use] [-g gid-to-use]
[-l log-file] [-f] file-name [-l log-file [-f] file-name]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the zcav, program.
Modern hard drives have a constant rotational speed but have varying numbers of sectors per track (outside tracks are longer and have more
sectors). This is referred to as Zoned Constant Angular Velocity (or ZCAV). The outer tracks will have a higher data transfer rate due to
having more sectors per track, these tracks generally have the lower track/sector numbers.
This program tests the ZCAV performance of a hard drive, by reading the entire data on it a specified number of times. The file name given
as the first parameter, it can be specified as -, for standard input. This file will be opened as read-only and in usual operation it will
be /dev/hdX or /dev/ide/host0/busX/targetY/lun0/disc depending on whether you use devfs or not (NB operating systems other than Linux will
have different device names).
The output should be able to be easily graphed with gnuplot which is what I use to view the results.
OPTIONS
-b the size (in Meg) of the blocks to read/write (default 100M), optionally followed by a ':' and the chunk size for read/write opera-
tions (default 1M). Note that the chunk size must be less than or equal to the block size and must also be significantly less than
the size of the RAM in the machine. Also note that for the write test there will be a fsync() after writing every chunk.
-c the number of times to read/write the entire disk.
-r the range of data (in Meg) to read/write on each pass (default the entire device). Useful if you want to quickly test part of a
large drive. If a single number is given then that is the last block to read, if two numbers then it's the start and end of a
range. Values are in megs, but they are rounded down to the block size.
-s skip rate. The option -s 10 will cause it to read every 10th block and skip the rest.
-f the file-name for the input data. This isn't needed on well configured systems that have a recent Glibc where you can specify the
file name without the -f flag.
-u user-id to use. When running as root specify the UID to run the tests as, it is not recommended to use root, so if you want to run
as root use -u root. Also if you want to specify the group to run as then use the user:group format. If you specify a user by name
but no group then the primary group of that user will be chosen. If you specify a user by number and no group then the group will
be nogroup.
-g group-id to use. Same as using :group for the -u parameter, just a different way to specify it for compatibility with other pro-
grams.
-w write zero blocks to the disk instead of reading from the disk - will destroy data!
AUTHOR
This program, it's manual page, and the Debian package were written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.
AVAILABILITY
The source is available from http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++ .
See http://etbe.coker.com.au/category/benchmark for further information.
zcav(8)