[PLUG] Flaky HD's

[Mike De La Mater]

It's been my experience that when a drive fails that it writes jibberish to the 
file names and directories, not recognizeable text. I'd suspect a software 
thingy, but the manufacturer of the drive will more than likely have a utility on 
their site. Manufacturers are using the result codes to do troubleshooting, so 
theey don't have to talk to you on the phone.

Mike

7/3/02 4:59:17 PM, Dan Young <dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us> wrote:

>Bill Spears wrote:
>> Is there any way, programs, voodoo, prayer, that you guys use to check if a 
>> drive is flakey.
>--snip--
>
>IBM has Drive Fitness Test, a bootable floppy thing-a-ma-jig. They even 
>provide a "Linux version", though it's just a floppy image. It _does_ 
>appear that the drive to be tested must be an IBM one, as it accesses 
>IBM drive microcode. YMMV.
>
>http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
>
>It does seem like most drive manufacturers have something similar though.
>
>-Dan Young
>-Parkrose School District
>
>
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