From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:59:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB1737B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC6743E31; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0451.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.196] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SSIz-0002ox-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:59:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2CD811.C388CEDD@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:57:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Kent Stewart , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE EIDE ATAPI Low Level Format tools by vendor References: <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> <20020709010245.GJ90012@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D2CD00F.9729BA13@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Feel free to add to this list, and repost, to capture in the list archive. Seagate "DiscWizard": http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/low_level_ata.html Maxtor "LLFUTIL.EXE": http://www.maxtor.com/SoftwareDownload/utilities.html Western Digital "Data Lifeguard Tools": http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp IBM "Drive Fitness Test" (also available as a Linux Binary): http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm Samsung "Clearhdd.exe" (not satisfying; they claim "it lasts a lifetime"): http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/faqs/faq_1320.html Hitachi (also not satisfying; they claim "it last's a lifetime"): http://www.hitachi.com/opstore/opstoretech/01ustech/02hddsupport/faqhdd/ -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message