On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:18:09PM -0800, Michael O'Brien wrote:
> Hola~
>
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000 on which I have the unstable debs installed.
>
> I believe the laptop has a buggy disk or drive controller. I'm finding some
> files saved to the disk contain garbage. For example, in downloading the
> kernel 2.4.2 source, one of the files contained some syntactically incorrect
> c. I've also got some sort of corruption in some apt file as apt now cores on
> startup. The real reason I believe this is a hardware problem is because I'm
> seeing similar problems using Win2k.
>
> Anyway, I was curious if there was some sort of disk drive diagnostic or
> testing package? I was looking at bonnie, but it seems more geared toward
> finding disk performance than diagnostics.
>
Maybe it doesn't apply to laptop drives but most if not all hard drive
manufacturers have a diagnostic program you can find at their web-site.
kent
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