Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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. The IBM tool, and the WD tool, and the Maxtor tool, and other tools are on http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ -- "I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." President Thomas Jefferson Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/