hard disc health checks

[Ian Malone]

Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au>:

 > Hi,
 > in addition to what others have said, I'd like to point out a disk
 > test utility I stumbled across the other day and found quite nice.
 > It's made by Hitachi and is called Drive Fitness Test. You can
 > download a bootable floppy or CD image from
 > http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm.
 >
 > It requires booting the image of course, so you'll have to take your
 > machine down.


Thanks for the link.  The drive is actually a Hitachi, so this sounds
like a good idea.

-- 
imalone