Subj : checking for bad sectors under OS/2
To   : Michael Balcos
From : Johan Zwiekhorst
Date : Mon Apr 11 2005 09:26 pm

Hi Michael!

In your message to All, dated <Monday April 11 2005 07:47>, you wrote:

 >MB: I'm currently baffled on how to surface test hard disks installed with
 >MB: OS/2 Warp 3. Since OS/2 Warp 3 requires big hard disks to not use LBA
 >MB: mode, I don't know of any tool that can surface test the disk. Are
 >MB: there surface analysis tools for OS/2, perhaps free ones? Commercial
 >MB: ones are also acceptable.

If I want to surface test an entire disk, I usually resort to the DOS tools 
provided by the drive's manufacturer (like PowerMax by Maxtor).
The only OS/2 utility I can think of is GammaTech's Analyze: that will check a 
partition at a time, if that partition has a drive letter in OS/2. It checks 
the directory structure, the files and the free space. Bad sectors are reported 
and can be flagged. It can check JFS drives as well, although it reports the 
format as 'Unknown'.

Kind regards,

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