FreeBSD 10.2 freezes in my PowerMac G5 Late 2005!

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 24 14:39:49 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:29:44AM -0500, Bill Sorenson wrote:
> If you're using a different hard disk for FreeBSD than for the working OS
> X, it might be worth checking the disk. If you have a PC laying around you
> can use a tool called MHDD that works fairly well for testing disks.

It's worth noting that MHDD is pure-DOS only (unless things had recently
changed and I was not aware).  There is another program called Victoria [1]
which has both versions for DOS and Windows (website is in Russian, but its
GUI is in English), albeit 32-bit only.

./danfe

[1] http://hdd-911.com/index.php?Itemid=31&catid=81&task=view_category


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