Hi Bob:
I have asked this same question. It seems to me, there is a *real* need for
some good hardware diagnostics because there are none, with one exception.
Okay, there are some commercial diagnostics but they are expensive and who
knows what they really do. The one exception is an old, now unsupported DOS
shareware package called "burnin." It is certainly better than nothing, but
not by much.
My thought was to try to use existing Linux drivers. However, this is just
a guess because I am not a programmer and certainly not knowledgeable about
drivers. I wrote to RMS once suggesting this approach and he seemed to
think it might work, depending on the driver.
In a nutshell, write a userland interface that allows calls to be made to
hardware drivers with user-defined checkout parameters. It would be nice to
be able to isolate a suspected hardware problem by exercising, say, a serial
port or video memory or a NIC card overnight. Next day, come in and read
over the report file and look for errors.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Bob Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 6:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] hardware diagnostics?
>
>
> This may be off the beaten track, but..
> Has anyone used tomsrtbt to make a disk (or set of same) that can
> do system
> hardware checks? And does anyone know where I can find Linux diagnostic
> programs I could fold into tomsrtbt? ( I've hunted around on the
> 'net to no
> avail for weeks)
>
> At the moment, I'm using Dos stuff, but that's about as much fun
> as juggling
> live squid (and just about as useful)
>
> Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
