From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 10:39:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5F737B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9472F43E65 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9252909F for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:39:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: How do I know a disk is bad? In-Reply-To: <20020921162653.42c9b748.freebsd@secspace.de> Message-ID: <20020921133701.M6980-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Volker Kindermann wrote: > > How do I detect a bad sector on a disk. Are there any other utilities that can be used to detect such error? > most harddisk vendors have some kind of testing tool on their websites. > I know of IBM, Maxtor and Seagate having this, the others might have it, too. > -volker Do you mean that most harddisk vendors, I mean, harddisk manufacturers make available downloadable diskette contents that are bootable? I think Maxtor's tools make the diskette bootable so you can do tests OS-independent. > Please don't cc me: I read the lists and don't need your message twice > :-) Hehe, I hate that too! :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message