> On 18 Aug 2024, at 04:08, vom513 <vom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So to be clear, this is vintage hardware, SCSI, and spinning rust.
>
> I suppose I could dd random write the entire rdev, reboot, and dd read the
> entire rdev into /dev/null and watch for device errors ?
>
Why not simply attempt a low-format, namely writing zeroes everywhere? You
would also get write errors that way. There could be appropriate tools to do
that using alternate or network boot but I suppose dd can do exactly the same.
