Read/WRITE/Verify disk diagnostic tool for Mac OS X?

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Published on 2010-04-01T22:56:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 23:03 UTC
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It seems that there are many tools out there for Mac OS X that test a hard drive for bad blocks by doing a Read/Verify pass. That is, they read a block, then read it a second time, and verify that both reads yielded the same results.

I need a tool that does a non-destructive Read/Write/Verify pass. It should read each block, write those same contents back out, and then read it again to verify. That way every block gets written, giving the hard drive a chance to spare out bad blocks. But since the same contents that were just read get written back out, it doesn't destroy data that wasn't already lost.

I'm aware of several tools that can do Read/Verify, but I'm not aware of any that do Read/Write/Verify. Are there any tools that do what I want?

Unix / open source tools that compile and run on Mac OS X are fair game too.

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