Originally Posted By: artie505
After getting to this point with your script

Code:
Available Block Devices:
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1) (DEVICE)               *232.9 Gi   disk0
2) HD                      24.9 Gi    disk0s2
3) HD2                     207.5 Gi   disk0s3
4) (DEVICE)               *9.1 Mi     disk1
5) surface_scan.command.2010.01.13.A9.1 Mi     disk1s2

Select device by number:

I discovered that both options 2 and 3 defaulted to scanning disk0.

According to the table, HD and HD2 are both slices on the same device (disk0). Therefore they share the same (master) partition map... which is the first (some number of) blocks on "disk0". I guess lumping the two "HDs" makes sense from the viewpoint that: if one is bad, then you'll still need to replace both (when a new HD is installed).

But, i should let V1 speak for his own product.

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EDIT: this forum software doesn't let us put styles (colors, bold, italics, etc.) inside code tags. What a drag.

EDIT#2: and that first edit took almost 5 minutes to reload [in contrast to places like macosxhints or macrumors, where the pages fly open... even with hundreds of members logged in (and perhaps thousands of guests lurking), while dozens of users are posting almost simultaneously.]

Last edited by Hal Itosis; 03/15/10 06:32 PM.