Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:29:57 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good disk checker/repair? Message-ID: <20011218172957.A22826@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <20011218170317.N21241@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:03:17PM %2B0100 References: <20011218170317.N21241@xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:03:17PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl stood up and spoke: > Hi. I've got a 40G Seagate IDE disk that might have some errors on it. > /usr/ports/sysutils/diskcheckd appears broken (now doing a cvsup) so I'm > wondering if any other tool will allow me some disk checking / repair... Depends. If your *filesystem* has errors, then fsck is supposed to deal with them and will happily do so. However, if your question is about "low level" problems with your hard disk, such as bad sectors, then the issue changes a bit. In order to diagnose (and, if possible, correct) such problems, special software must be used. Such software is mostly specifically created for certain hard disks, for example, Western Digital provides a hard disk check utility called "WDDIAG" or, since a few months "DLGDIAG". This thing is specialized in checking Western Digital hard drives for "low level" problems and repairing them, if possible. Now, you are using a Seagate drive, which means that the Western Digital software will not work for you. However, Seagate probably provides some similar software for free download on their website. Just note that these utilities tend to want DOS in order to run. Indeed, the only reason why I have a DOS boot disk around here is that it allows me to run the Western Digital hard drive diagnosis utility... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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