From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 11:44:30 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 8C85837B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.166.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E5243F75 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s9905155@sms.ed.ac.uk) Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (12266209.resnet.ed.ac.uk [10.6.0.100] (may be forged)) by grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1EJiPh00447; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:44:25 GMT Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (localhost.gamesoc [127.0.0.1]) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1EJiNjE004703; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:44:23 GMT (envelope-from bruce@fourtytwo.gamesoc) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1EJiNx7004702; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:44:23 GMT Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:44:23 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard error?? Message-ID: <20030214194423.GA4638@fourtytwo.gamesoc> References: <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:19:34PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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.... > My drive really did fail after attempting to install FreeBSD - I mananged to get the BIOS and Windows to recognise it long enough to run IBM's smartdefender program. It told me the drive was basically dead. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message