[TriLUG] identifying hard drive errors

Brian Daniels bitmage at bellsouth.net
Sun Aug 24 20:00:50 EDT 2003


On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 08:30:39PM -0400, John Beimler wrote:
> Try out smartd: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ , 
> although I'd suggest finding the rpm of it that came with your 
> distribution. I use it to monitor discs in all my systems, and it has 
> warned me about two discs that were on their way to bad.
> 


Thanks for this pointer!  I hadn't heard of this app and it looks to be 
quite useful.

--Brian

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