From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 11 4: 9:27 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 9588237B400; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (12-233-156-170.client.attbi.com [12.233.156.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA2443E4A; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BB8wUi002664; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6BB8vJp002663; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:08:57 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Terry Lambert Cc: Sergey Babkin , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Kent Stewart , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE EIDE ATAPI Low Level Format tools by vendor Message-ID: <20020711110857.GB2428@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Sergey Babkin , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Kent Stewart , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> <20020709010245.GJ90012@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D2CD00F.9729BA13@bellatlantic.net> <3D2CD811.C388CEDD@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2CD811.C388CEDD@mindspring.com> 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 Thus spake Terry Lambert : > Feel free to add to this list, and repost, to capture in the list archive. Excellent! Adding an untested Quantum tool to the list. I really could have used this last week, but couldn't find it until I followed the Maxtor link you gave. Doh! Seagate "DiscWizard": http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/low_level_ata.html Maxtor "LLFUTIL.EXE": http://www.maxtor.com/SoftwareDownload/utilities.html Quantum "PowerMax": http://www.maxtor.com/Quantum/support/csr/software/softmenu.htm 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message