Darac Marjal writes: > You could try a disk-benchmarking program such as bonnie++. > Alternatively, use dd with alternating seek= parameters to write to the > start/end/start/end/... of the disk.
Both sound like good ideas. I will try dd first since it is at hand and see if the mechanism frees up or just gets stuck. I bet it has been over ten years since this drive ever saw a floppy. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211061627.qa6gr4za004...@x.it.okstate.edu