do you know any utility able to do for a hdd what memtest do for RAM? It seems like I have HW problems and I can't figure out what. fsck don't gives anything. symptoms: on heavy work, linux freezes, disk is corrupted, but as soon as I reformat it fsck -c don't complain anymore, but the freeze keep occuring again. tested with ext3 and reiserfs :-( I don't remember having seen badblocks listed by fsck, arrors where like date of the superblock in the future or inode error (and there has been a crash, so this is not surprising) the cpu could be hot, but I fixed the fan (some oil) and still freezes :-( thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org