Does anyone know of any reason that a Read Verify Sectors command could not be used to verify that the disk surface is basically error free?
I am attempting to write a diagnostics package for testing hard drives and I would prefer to use the quickest command possible to verify that the surface is basically error free in the quickest possible time. Somewhere along the line, someone thought that the implementation of this command was vendor specific and that there were some vendors who basically treated this command as a NOP type of command and that the verification was not made.
Ray Clutts
Service Electronics
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