2009/4/28 John Summerfield: > Nikolay Vladimirov wrote: > >>> Matthias >>> >> >> I'm also experiencing something similar on T41. The disk is an old >> fujitsu 40GB hard drive and I assumed that it is really failing. How >> can I check this to be sure if it is failing or not? > > > Go to your disk manufacturer's website and look for any diagnostic tools. > IBM, before it got out of the disk business, had its Drive Fitness Test > program on a floppy disk image of PCDOS 2000 (or so) ready for users to > download, write to a floppy and boot. Hitachi inherited that, but I don't > know the state of play. > > Other vendors (eg Seagate) also provide test programs for their disks. Some > _might_ require Windows. > > I note that HP's most recent (that I've seen) diagnostics for its _PCs_ > boots and runs on Linux. My IBM Thinkpad came with diagnostics in a vendor > partition. Thanks for that I think I've got some diagnostic CD somewhere and the vendor partition is still there I will double check the disk and report a bug if everything is OK with it. -- NV -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
