Sure; I'll write a log for it or something and I'll make sure that people hear what a machine with 12 hard drives connected to it sounds like. Cheers, Ben. On 3/23/12, Barry Toner <barry@barry-toner.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
Ben would you fancy documenting your hard drive testing machine? Poss sticking it up as a podcast or on blindsysadmin.com?
Cheers, Barry.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Kerry Hoath Sent: 23 March 2012 02:37 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
No it is drives enumerated by the BIOS so it is numbered from 0 which starts at bios drive 0x80 and up.
first bios hard drive drive 0 second bios drive 1 and so on
Regards, Kerry.
On 23/03/2012 9:35 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Does it include optical drives when it numbers the drives? Seems like the best way forward would be to have a dedicated sr machine with no hard drives in it other than the test drive so you always know which number to use. I'm going to be building a hard drive testing machine over easter; hoping to be able to test 12 drives at a time compared to having multiple machines on and only being able to do 5 or 6 between them. Going to be connecting all the drives to the board directly or through controler cards and testing them within windows taking advantage of windows 7's hotswap feature. All the testing / formatting will be done under windows; it should all work well.
Cheers, Ben.
On 3/23/12, Kerry Hoath<kerry@ciscovision.org> wrote:
Sorry I forgot to mention you use drive 0 1 2 3 4 5 etc. Regards, Kerry. On 23/03/2012 3:02 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for that, I didn't realise it had command line options but should have known better.
When specifying a USB drive which may not have a drive letter (Linux or other volume), what is the syntax to use then? I will play round with this more anyhow.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Kerry Hoath Sent: 22 March 2012 05:46 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
You don't technically need to access the interface of spinrite. Here is what Idid:
Made my own boot disk with spinrite's executable on it media needs to be writable so a floppy or thumbdrive. boot to dos. spinrite auto drive 0 level 4 exit
Then read the log when done.
Docs contain all the command-line options.
Regards, Kerry. On 22/03/2012 10:31 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
That's what I was going to say. Steve brought up the idea on a question of accessibility of the program on Security Now and said people have done it, but the little I used DOS in DOS without Windows on top of it, the hardware synths supported by any of them might be hard to come by.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> To: "Blind sysadmins list"<blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I used to run Spinrite a lot from a Windows boot disk running Hal Lite with a Juno speech synth and it worked fine. The issue we have now is no support for software synths under DOS, which is what Spinrite runs under.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 21 March 2012 23:11 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I have some private messeges with Steve Gibson and he said that it's just DOS that SR runs in. He reckoned JFW for DOS should load. Though it could have been Free DOS he meant, in which case I'm not sure if a Screen Reader can be ran from.
I'd certainly be interested in any SR walkthroughs, with or without speech.
Cheers, Barry.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride Sent: 21 March 2012 23:03 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Spinrite can test USB drives if your bios is set to support it. Most newer bioses do now, but the name of the setting differs. However, spinrite, from my experience, at least, wasn't accessible.
There are lots of smart monitoring/diagnostic utils out there. I can't remember which 1 I've used--it's been awhile. Google's your best friend, in case some1 on list can't provide more info--I'm actually headed out now very quickly so time is at a premium.
First thing I think I'd do is a chkdsk on that drive using the /f& /r options to fix any file system errors/bad sectors.
On 3/21/12, David Mehler<dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I know about spinrite, but I didn't think that worked on > usb-attached external drives. > > I've got a terabyte external drive connected by usb, it's an > enclosure, but not removable, i.e. the drive came in it and it's > sealed not meant to be replaced. This enclosure took a spill and hit > a carpeted ground apartment say maybe four feet and it didn't show > up for a while. I recycled it, disconnected and reconnected > everything, and it shows up but it took what looks like casing > damage and I'm hoping it didn't take internal damage, it's not > making any noises and it is showing up again, I'd like to know what > others use to test their external drives? Also on the subject, is > anyone using the network-attached terabyte or greater drive? Which > one can be recommended? > > Thanks. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > -- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself& occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Ask Me Computer Questions at: www.pcinquirer.com Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net
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