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Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs?
Date	2017-02-22 18:05 +0000
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Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:49:59 -0500, nospam wrote
> (in article <210220171349596137%nospam@nospam.invalid>):
> 
>> In article <0001HW.D4D1DCF4012D7185B02919BF@news.astraweb.com>, Nelson
>> <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Also, I think all Mac Internal drives implement S.M.A.R.T. which you 
>>> can check.
>> 
>> all drives implement smart. there's nothing special about the ones
>> apple uses.
> 
> That may be true but there appears to be no way to access it on 
> external drives.  

There is a way:

<https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver>

<https://www.smartmontools.org>

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A bad sector checker program in Macs? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-21 01:49 -0800
  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 04:56 -0500
    Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-21 05:02 -0600
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-21 14:50 +0000
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2017-02-21 18:49 -0500
  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 07:07 -0500
    Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 12:03 -0500
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 13:49 -0500
        Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 19:53 -0500
          Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 20:01 -0500
          Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 18:05 +0000
            Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-26 13:45 -0500
  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-22 00:49 +0000
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