On 17 April 2011 19:55, Brian Flaherty <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
