[plug] Stressing a disk

[Derek Fountain]

> 1 - Check your BIOS settings - ie: - 'write behind' cacheing.
>
> 2 - Check with HDD manufacturer to see if there is a firmware revision
> available for your HDD, if so apply it.
>
> 3 - Use manufacturer disk tools to analyse drive - possible that track 0 is
> bad - may be able to recover with 'low-level' format - watch out for 'BAD
> sectors' - and take care to move or backup all data from drive.

Heh, it's not worth it. It's a 1996 vintage, 2.5GB IDE drive. I've chucked it. 
Thanks for the tips though...