-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:44:13AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > Strange. Something else must have been wrong. Defective drive maybe? I doubt it, since smart tools don't report any immediate drive problems, and since I noticed no drive/file system problems when I had win98 on that box recently. > Temporary network outage that caused the installer to get into some kind > of loop? Maybe, but I doubt that too, since mail arrived to my server box overnight, and the dsl modem didn't resync that night (it rarely does anyway). So, if there was a network outage, I doubt it was on my end. > > I could send you a 13 or 15 Gb disk. I've got 4 drives in the 13 - 15 Gb > range that I was just going to throw in the trash. I'm not 100% sure any > of them are good but I'm guessing there is a linux utility for testing a > drive. I've got a few still good older drives sitting here myself, but thanks for the offer. Besides, I'm 95% sure this machine's bios has the 8g size limit. As for your other statement, there seems to be a GNU/Linux utility for pretty much anything these days, and drive testing isn't an exception. Like I said, there definitely are tools for checking SMART-enabled drives, and I'd be surprised if there were no utilities for testing drives without SMART. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku+JlsACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBIUACgrXqcs8wEoUjPq1JiE0VZQYvk 1igAoIWbXPGkurfOKBQB5Vmu5ua3mzTv =Rc3H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
