Re: [Blind-sysadmins] spinrite accessibility

Interestingly enough you don't need to read the screen to make spinrite test drives. Whilst it is far from accessible you can get buy with testing drives as follows: Put your spinrite on bootable media. Edit the config.sys so it shells in the command.com instead of spinrite itself. Now from the prompt run something like: spinrite drive 0 level 1 auto exit command-line arguments are in the docs that come with it. drive 0 is the first hard drive bios drive 0X80H. level 1 is the vverify only test level. auto means ask no questions. exit returns you to a dos prompt when done. Your results are stored in spinrite.log careful how you use spinrite, it is possible to cause a failing drive to die completely if you use spinrite on it at too high a test level. I usually check health of drives with smartmontools, get all the data off the disk Ican, then go for spinrite. Regards, Kerry. On 22/05/2014 8:54 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:

It won't. It specifically states it doesn't cooperate w/other resident programs,& that includes screenreaders. Unfortunately, I ended up havin to get my money back simply cuz I couldn't use it.

On 5/21/14, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello,

Does anyone have a version of spinrite that will talk? I'm needing to run it on a drive that I'm really hoping is not failing, but the system has been making some unpleasant noises.

Thanks. Dave.

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