PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Tomasz Rola]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:22:04AM -0700, Guy N. via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I have to wipe the drives before I ship them -- my word of honor to the
> sysadmin.  I have probably a couple dozen done now that I can ship right
> away.  The rest will trickle out a little bit slower after that.
> 
> When I said "big carton" I meant it.  There are plenty for everyone.

I have heard good things of MHDD diagnostic/repair program in the
context of low level format and generally checking health of spinning
disks. Strangely, I have never had a chance to use it, so far. It
seems like there is freeware version, able to boot from CD?

HTH

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Tomasz Rola

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