danb35
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I just installed some new disks in my FreeNAS 9.3-RELEASE server, and I'm trying to test them before putting data on them. In the past I've run badblocks on a spare Linux machine, but I don't have one of those handy at the moment, so I've installed the drives in my FreeNAS box and will just test them there. The disks are connected to an LSI 9211-8i, flashed to IT mode with the P16 firmware.
Following https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-hard-drive-burn-in-testing.21451/, I issued "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10", and then "badblocks -wsv /dev/da0". It responded with "Testing with pattern 0xaa: set_o_direct: Inappropriate ioctl for device", but then appears to run without issues. Is this something I should be concerned about?
Following https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-hard-drive-burn-in-testing.21451/, I issued "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10", and then "badblocks -wsv /dev/da0". It responded with "Testing with pattern 0xaa: set_o_direct: Inappropriate ioctl for device", but then appears to run without issues. Is this something I should be concerned about?