On Thu 01 Mar 2007 12:43:37 NZDT +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > The problem did not occur to any of the "boot-off-cd" hard-drive > testing utilities, they all did a full disk read without a problem,
Vendor-specific testing utilities as usual are only limited by the R&D budget and the imagination of the disk manufacturer. > Oh, and running smartmon tools on a disk that doesn't spin up or > communicate with the IDE bus ... kinda hard. ;) True, but in those cases there's no need to run smartmontools to find out what the damage is... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
