Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb gm um 03:14: > Hey guys, I have this hard drive that I got from another system, I was > wondering if fedora has a tool to check the hard drive for errors, aka scan > disk, etc. Thanks > > > gm First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! To your question: IBM has a tool free for download to do a surface check. It also can check for S.M.A.R.T. status. Just put it on a floppy and boot it. Fedora has smartctl for those checks. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 03:32:12 up 6 days, 5:06, load average: 0.07, 0.12, 0.34 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]