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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:19:34 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard error??
Message-ID:  <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <F184M5TPhrOFoqinGE50000315f@hotmail.com>
References:  <F184M5TPhrOFoqinGE50000315f@hotmail.com>

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Henrik W Lund wrote:
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> 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....

-Chuck


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