Software recommendation for checking for bad sectors

[countzero]

I was thinking of checking my newly bought scsi drives for bad sectors (on WinXP). In the past, dos format command had something for bad sectors (a blue screen with yellow dots, bad sectors marked as red) unfortunately (or fortunately) I've completely forgotten that stuff. How can I do that on a modern windows now ? will a format will do ? (or fscheck for linux ?)

also, is there a way to amiga partition and format a hd on a x86 machine ? A few days ago I was configuring a 2.6 linux kernel and I saw an option for amiga filesystem support. Does anyone know if it's reliable ?

[motorollin]

Use ScanDisk to do a thorough scan and it will check the disk surface for bad sectors, and mark any that it finds.

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moto

[countzero]

motorollin wrote:
and mark any that it finds.

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moto

how do I see those marks ? well, actually, only a general report would be ok as well. Scandisk didn't give me any options after it finished.

[motorollin]

Scandisk should tell you at the end if it has found any errors. If it doesn't report anything, then it finds no errors.

I don't know why you would need to see the location of the bad blocks. They are marked in a table on the disk, so the disk itself will ensure that the blocks are not written to.

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moto

[countzero]

hmm yeah, well I don't need to see them. I just wanted to see how many bad sectors they have. Seems like all are pretty in good shape. I bought these scsi drives from the fleamarket in tokyo for about 2-5$ each that's why I'm little bit suspicious.

[motorollin]

Just make sure the option to automatically fix errors is DISABLED, otherwise it might fix things without telling you. If that option is disabled, it will warn you if it finds any bad sectors (and I think it actually tells you which sector it is too, so you could mark it in HDToolBox if you want to use it on your Amiga).

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moto