Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-01-25 at 12:06 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
On Sunday 25 January 2009 11:36:54 Carlos E. R. wrote:
There is another possibility. Some manufacturers, like seagate, have a stand alone utility that run those tests under control of the cpu, including controller and cable test (so they say). It is a floppy or iso bootable image.
These drives are Western Digital Caviar Greens. I don't remember getting any CD/floppy with them, but I admit I don't pay much attention when I do, as utility disks supplied with hardware are generally designed to run under Windows.
I'll have a look on the WD website, though. Thanks for the tip.
Yes, Seagate has the utility for download somewhere on their site. You don't get the floppy/cd unless you buy the thing in a nice box on one of those nice computer supermarket stores.
As to being a windows program... not quite, it is a boot diskette or cd, usually with freedos or msdos, some times perhaps linux. Different manufacturer do things differently, though. I could not find the up to date Fujitsu utility, for instance.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
The "Ultimate Boot CD" has most of the disk manufacturer's utilities on it. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org