On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On 26 March 2018 at 19:34, Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > I have heard good things of MHDD diagnostic/repair program in the > > context of low level format and generally checking health of spinning > > disks. > > That's a new one on me. > > I have occasionally used, and often recommend, DBAN -- Darik's Boot And Nuke. > > https://dban.org/
Interesting. But judging from descriptions, mhdd is very different tool/beast. Not that I can recommend one over another, having no experience (when in trouble, I just ran dd over the disk or parts of it). http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ -- 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 **