I've always done burn-in testing on new hard drives with the badblocks utility in e2fsprogs. I've run into the following problem on very large drives. Any suggestions?
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
badblocks -b 4096 -ws /dev/da4
badblocks: Value too large to be stored in data type invalid...
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