Subj : checking for bad sectors under OS/2
To   : Johan Zwiekhorst
From : Michael Balcos
Date : Tue Apr 12 2005 03:19 am

 JZ> If I want to surface test an entire disk, I usually 
 JZ> resort to the DOS tools provided by the drive's 
 JZ> manufacturer (like PowerMax by Maxtor).
 JZ> The only OS/2 utility I can think of is GammaTech's 

Yes, I will also prefer the DOS tools (SeaTools for Seagate drives). But that 
would mean setting a big hard drive to use LBA mode from the BIOS. Will that be 
safe and not harm my OS/2 Warp 3 HPFS partitions?

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