Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: How do I know a disk is bad? Message-ID: <20020921133701.M6980-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020921162653.42c9b748.freebsd@secspace.de>
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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
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