Spinrite.

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, brltty is supported and present in the iso image that I have on my
bootable USB stick. So, it seems you could start brltty as readily as I
start Speakup when booting grml.

http://grml.org

Janina

Anders Holmberg writes:
> Hi!
> I don't know really.
> But you're right.
> But does grml comes with braille?
> I guess you can install braille but i don't want to mess things up.
> And i would like to use braille rather than speech.
> /A
> 27 dec 2013 kl. 08:17 skrev Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net>:
> 
> > So, the goal is to check the integrity of a hard drive? If so, there are
> > far better ways, imo, to go about this task. My approach would be to
> > first boot grml then use standard Linux tools, e.g. e2fsck and the
> > smartmontools like smartctl.
> > 
> > This approach is fully accessible.
> > 
> > So, what does spinWrite give you that you can't do per the above?
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > Tim Chase writes:
> >> On December 26, 2013, Anders Holmberg wrote:
> >>> Has anyone on the list tried spinrite for linux?
> >>> There seems to be a version but i am not sure if its console or gui
> >>> based. It might or might not work with screenreaders or brltty.
> >> 
> >> Based on what I've picked up on Steve Gibson's "Security Now"
> >> podcast, I believe that Spinrite has its own boot loader, possibly
> >> FreeDOS, so you boot it on its own.  I also understand that it's
> >> OS-agnostic regarding the content of the drive, so you can check any
> >> type of OS/drive regardless of how it's formatted or partitioned.
> >> 
> >> It might be possible to use a screen-reader with it if you had the
> >> following scenario:
> >> 
> >>  1) boot an accessible OS that doesn't touch the drive you want to
> >>  test (perhaps from a CD or flash drive)
> >> 
> >>  2) bring up an accessible virtualization program (I'm ignorant in
> >>  this department, but others might chime in).  This is the key
> >>  element, so you'd have to test this first.  Perhaps boot a FreeDOS
> >>  boot-disk in a virtual machine and play around to make sure it does
> >>  what you want.
> >> 
> >>  3) mount the actual drive that you want to check as a virtual drive
> >>  in the virtual machine
> >> 
> >>  4) mount the SpinRite boot disk in the virtual machine
> >> 
> >>  5) boot the VM off the SpinRite drive
> >> 
> >> Theoretically, it should start up, see the virtual drive and operate
> >> on it as if you had it in a real machine, but being made accessible
> >> via the virtualization program.  Steve mentioned folks doing
> >> something like this successfully, but you might want to ring their
> >> tech-support to verify that.
> >> 
> >> -tim
> >> 
> >> 
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		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair,	Protocols & Formats	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
	Indie UI			http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/