[wplug] Any hard drive test utilities

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Robert Coutch assaulted the keyboard and produced:

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| Does anyone know of a hard disk test program that is not SCANDISK?
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| Something that boots from it's own floppy or CD.
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| Any opinions about PC Doctor?
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| I needed to test a drive the other day and used SCANDISK in surface scan mode 
| since nothing else was at hand.

try badblocks. it comes with redhat and is probably located on the knoppix
cd as well. 

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