On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:19:34PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Henrik W Lund wrote: > [ ... ] > >Anyway, I want to know for sure that this disk failure is not due to any > >FreeBSD shenanigans, as I do not want to buy a new drive and install > >FreeBSD to it, only to have it crash on me just days later. > > Fair enough. Check with the vendor of your hard drive (or the laptop) > for their hard-drive test utilities. You should be able to do a > non-destructive read test and see what you see.... >
My drive really did fail after attempting to install FreeBSD - I mananged to get the BIOS and Windows to recognise it long enough to run IBM's smartdefender program. It told me the drive was basically dead. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
