Re: Hard disk crash and solution

[Todd Lyons <todd@mrball.net>]

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Ookhoi wanted us to know:

>A lot? Sometimes you can hear a disk recalibrate, which is not bad, but
>that should be only now and then.

If you're hearing what I have heard, it's the sound your ears hear when
you're scratching your head.  At that point it's trying to read a bad
sector and multiple reads/writes seemingly have stacked up in the queue
and the machine has come nearly to a halt.  It's still running, but
barely, more like crawling.

>Try to run an ibm drive fitness program and see what it tells you about
>the disk.

They refer to it as DFT and they have a couple of different versions as
I remember.  It's good software too.  Boots from PC-DOS :)
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