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@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list