[svlug] Please bring disk fixin tools to installfest 4me.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> my 180g hitachi ide hd [has problems].   Bring any super ata disk
> fixing tools Sat.

Hmm, looking on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/, one finds "Hard
Drive Utilities", which hyperlink takes us to
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/hdutils.html, a page whose second
entry is -- ta da! -- Hitachi:

   Hitachi / IBM

   http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
   Hitachi / IBM Drive Fitness Test:

   Drive Fitness Test (v4.05)
   This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT
   utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method
   to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze
   function performs read tests without overwriting customer data.
   (However, Drive Fitness Test is bundled with some restoration utilities
   that will overwrite data).

There are a couple of other utilities on the linked page at hgst.com.
(You might want to download that for yourself.  I'm probably not even
going to be present on Saturday.)

If that doesn't work, I'd personally just write it off and get a new
drive.