2009/4/28 John Summerfield:
Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
>> Matthias
>>
>
> I'm also experiencing something similar on T41. The disk is an old
> fujitsu 40GB hard drive and I assumed that it is really failing. How
> can I check this to be sure if it is failing or not?
Go to your disk manufacturer's website and look for any diagnostic tools.
IBM, before it got out of the disk business, had its Drive Fitness Test
program on a floppy disk image of PCDOS 2000 (or so) ready for users to
download, write to a floppy and boot. Hitachi inherited that, but I don't
know the state of play.
Other vendors (eg Seagate) also provide test programs for their disks. Some
_might_ require Windows.
I note that HP's most recent (that I've seen) diagnostics for its _PCs_
boots and runs on Linux. My IBM Thinkpad came with diagnostics in a vendor
partition.
Thanks for that I think I've got some diagnostic CD somewhere and the
vendor partition is still there I will double check the disk and
report a bug if everything is OK with it.
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NV