Re: The Death and Diagnosis of a Dying Hard Drive - Is S.M.A.R.T. useful?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 06:23:32 -0400, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> SUMMARY:
> I pose the following question in the subject, as over the years running 
> smartd and having failed disks, I have always first been alerted of bad 
> sectors and such through dmesg or logcheck.  Even with a bad disk I 
> currently have, smartd does not pickup any errors, except those with the 
> kernel writes to syslog.

What do

	smartctl -H
	smartctl --all

tell you?

MfG, JBG

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