RE: owie, disk failure

[Danilo Godec]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:

> I have to confess I've never heard of manufacturers offering diagnostic
> utilities for disks... Gregory, can you point me at any examples? Am I
> just being a complete dumbass here?

At least Western Digital does on their ftp address
ftp://ftp.wdc.com/pub/drivers/hdutil, however I don't know what and how
those utils do better than badblocks & friends.


   D.