From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 25 21: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3535A37B8C8 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r25.bfm.org [216.127.220.121]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:07:44 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000425230216.008a2c50@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:02:16 -0500 To: Terry Lambert , brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200004251638.JAA02166@usr05.primenet.com> References: <4.2.2.20000418072728.04695100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16:38 25-04-2000 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> He can only do this on MFM, RLL, and ESDI. He can't do it on SCSI or >> IDE, because they don't allow him direct access to the hardware. > >C.v. "Partition Magic" for one example of a product that does this. So does SpinRite. Brett was correct about older versions, but SpinRite 5 can do it all. Well worth the upgrade. BTW, is there a program like that for FreeBSD? SpinRite works great on maintaining my Windows partitions, but it cannot handle the FreeBSD sections of my hard drive. Or does FreeBSD fix disk problems automatically? Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message