PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Tomasz Rola]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 26 March 2018 at 19:34, Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have heard good things of MHDD diagnostic/repair program in the
> > context of low level format and generally checking health of spinning
> > disks.
> 
> That's a new one on me.
> 
> I have occasionally used, and often recommend, DBAN -- Darik's Boot And Nuke.
> 
> https://dban.org/

Interesting. But judging from descriptions, mhdd is very different
tool/beast. Not that I can recommend one over another, having no
experience (when in trouble, I just ran dd over the disk or parts of
it).

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

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Tomasz Rola

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