On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:22:04AM -0700, Guy N. via cctalk wrote: [...] > I have to wipe the drives before I ship them -- my word of honor to the > sysadmin. I have probably a couple dozen done now that I can ship right > away. The rest will trickle out a little bit slower after that. > > When I said "big carton" I meant it. There are plenty for everyone.
I have heard good things of MHDD diagnostic/repair program in the context of low level format and generally checking health of spinning disks. Strangely, I have never had a chance to use it, so far. It seems like there is freeware version, able to boot from CD? HTH -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **