On 17 April 2011 19:55, Brian Flaherty <b...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see > that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a single > IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected to my > laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201) > > How do I reformat and test if the drive is reliable?
Don't. It's 8/9/10 year old technology which has already started to tell you it's going south. Just bin it. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=uOC4TpYdRMQ-6-2Zcyv-8=_6...@mail.gmail.com
