On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Volker Kindermann wrote: > > How do I detect a bad sector on a disk. Are there any other utilities that can >be used to detect such error? > most harddisk vendors have some kind of testing tool on their websites. > I know of IBM, Maxtor and Seagate having this, the others might have it, too. > -volker
Do you mean that most harddisk vendors, I mean, harddisk manufacturers make available downloadable diskette contents that are bootable? I think Maxtor's tools make the diskette bootable so you can do tests OS-independent. > Please don't cc me: I read the lists and don't need your message twice > :-) Hehe, I hate that too! :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message