Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> I've found smartmontools to be extremely useful for proactively > monitoring hard disk health. And also for checking on harddisk environmental conditions: most smart capable disks support a drive temperature attribute; I've found monitoring of that temperature to be quite interesting, esp. if you're using enclosures / drive bays where you can't monitor the fans. > The only problem I know about is that it doesn't work with SATA > drives under the libata driver due to lack of > support for the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. .. Unless you're using jeff garziks patches that add this passthrough support to libata. Current libata git contains the required functions; seperate patch for 2.6.12 also available. I've had good results using these patches. You'll need smartmodtools >= 5.33, and you have to add -d ata switch. # smartctl -d ata -A /dev/sdc smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 039 000 Bye, Martin