on 5-13-2008 9:04 AM Stephen John Smoogen spake the following: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27 PM, William L. Maltby > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR <mhullrich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: >> > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR <mhullrich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: >> > > ><snip> >> >> >> > NB: This also seem to apply to HD diags/repair. I had a Seagate SATA >> > drive that developed a couple bad sectors. I downloaded the dos diags >> > and it successfully repaired the bad sectors. Smartctl tests now report >> > no bad sectors. It was only two to start with, so the efffort seemed >> > worthwhile. Been about a week now - results good so far. >> > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > Thanks. >> > > > >> > > > mhr >> > > ><snip sig stuff> >> > >> > BTW, there is a freedos version available which I've not used. But I do >> > have DR DOS images available that I've used. WFM. >> > >> > HTH >> >> P.S. The Seagate software includes its own DOS OS for those of you >> contemplating any HD repair. It seems to be generic and it may be that >> other utilities would work with it as well. YMMV. >> >> > > > FreeDos is DR DOS these days. Some Vendors use FreeDOS as its open to > hack for your hardware.. some vendors use Windows only apps that > require the Windows 'graphics' to work. Its all in the court of the > vendor of hardware you bought. [Dell has a project to upgrade BIOS's > in Linux which works for most of their shipped hardware... I really > wish IBM and HP would have joined them as it would make my life a lot > easier.] > I have several HP servers that have linux runnable bios upgrades, and also alternate boot options like CD image or from flash drive. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080513/d13a5f80/attachment-0004.sig>