Hi there, I think this is 1/2 OT, but as I could think of nowhere else to ask... ;-)
I needed some tool to diagnose a VFAT (FAT32) partition from inside Linux... The reason why I want to do so is that all the tools I've tried to use from inside DOS/WIN refuse to run properly (it seems there's some rather serious problem with my 4.3Gb Samsung UDMA2 IDE HD, and as far as I can tell it seems to 'freeze' when trying to read some sector - at least from DOS/WIN - generating 'stack overflow' messages)... Anyway, I sort of thought (wondered? hoped? dreamed?) that maybe if the diagnostic tool was running from Linux it might be possible to overcome this problem (maybe just a slight difference on the way Linux accesses the HD, or some fine-tuning on hwclock's settings, could do the trick)... TIA, Guilherme Zahn