[Gllug] Random freezes

[Jack Bertram]

* Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> [050124 09:13]:
> Jack Bertram wrote:
> 
> >I'll try smartmontools. IIRC, the hard disk in question is an IBM
> >
> >Deskstar (I try not to succumb to the usual nicknames) 25GP dating from
> >about 1999, so it may well be getting towards the end of its useful
> >life.
> > 
> >
> 
> IBM had a good diagnostic utility called DFT (Drive Fitness Test).  You 
> can probably download a copy from whoever took over their hard disk 
> opteration (Samsung?)

Hitachi.  I'll google.  Thanks.

jack
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