Running Spinrite from Linux?

[david poehlman]

Yeah,  O don't think these folks doing this are even concerned about 
accessibility.  When I heard about what the new spin write could do, I was 
kind of dubious taht one program would run in any os like it seemed to claim 
to do.

Johnnie Apple Seed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Running Spinrite from Linux?


Well, fine. But then they're stuck with the accessibility of that
particular OS and that particular app. As for me, I'll stick to the
highly accessible tools on this OS. They're both accessible and
excellent for the purpose.

david poehlman writes:
> I fail to see the point as well.  I have not read the documentation though
> but I suspect it's for someone who runs windows as the main os and wants 
> to
> take care of the other file systems from it.
>
> Johnnie Apple Seed
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Running Spinrite from Linux?
>
>
> OK, but why would we want to do that? This is a Linux list, not a
> Windows list. Why would we be interested in Windows executables?
>
> I fail to see the point. If there's some data recovery required on some
> drive there are Linux tools for the job that work very well, thank you
> very much. And, they're a lot cheaper.
>
> david poehlman writes:
> > For more info about spin write, go to:
> > http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
> >
> >
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