From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 11:19:36 2003 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 2699F37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAF943FCB for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.41.173]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030214191933.QDFT16306.out005.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:19:33 -0600 Message-ID: <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:19:34 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard error?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [129.44.41.173] at Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:19:33 -0600 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 Henrik W Lund wrote: [ ... ] > Anyway, I want to know for sure that this disk failure is not due to any > FreeBSD shenanigans, as I do not want to buy a new drive and install > FreeBSD to it, only to have it crash on me just days later. Fair enough. Check with the vendor of your hard drive (or the laptop) for their hard-drive test utilities. You should be able to do a non-destructive read test and see what you see.... -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message