Claus writes,
> > 4) Is there a program that will scan all partitions on the hard disk for bad > > sectors (SMSQE or Linux)? > > Linux has its tools for ext2 filesystems, they're started periodically at boot time. > fsck.ext (for ext2 file systems) can also be started manually of course. File >system should not be mounted IIRC. > There is qxl_fschk that checks QLWA (SMS) partions. All of these only test file systems, they dont appear to look at the partition table(s). neither do they do a surface scan afaict. PS: fsck /dev/hda4 (my Linux partition) just checks the file system. Doing fsck /dev/hda does appear to study the partition table, but doesnt agree with SMSQ's way of doing things. > > 5) How can I run atari-fdisk on a live system (to check that my partition > > tables are ok)? Can it be compiled to run under Qdos/SMSQ/E ? > > I haven't find a way to do this. What you can do is to start Linux with root filesystem set to /dev/ram (ie boot with ramdisk). Other possibility is to look at /proc/partitions. Ah, but how do I do this? My literature doesnt tell me how to boot from (and stay on) a ramdisk. Perhaps everyone knows how to do it already ;) > > 7) Can uQLx be made to run machine code natively under Qdos? > > Not yet. Sounds promising ;) Thanks to all for your help!! Per
