on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Jean-Paul ARGUDO (jpargudo@free.fr) wrote: > Hi all > > I hope someone can help me, and that this message will fly thru the > user lists, since I had to get off the list because of technical > problems (to many messages to be downloaded for my really low internet > access) > > I'm a new debianeer. I want to go progressively to full linux on my > machine, since I have windows too, because of a scanner ans a webcam > not recognized yet :(( > > My problem is the following : my hard disk make strange worrying > noizes, for example, on moving big files, it suddenly stops with a > brief loud noize then continues, then stops, etc... it's not regular > but I worry a lot about that since I got no much money to buy a new > disk. > > Scandisk, defrag on windows not solves the problem, It's like the disk > it's okay. > > My question : does any program exists under Debian Linux to scan a > disk an to repair problems ? > > I add that this strange noises are only under windows, on linux, no > noise at all... man badblocks See list discussion past two weeks, several alternatives discussed. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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