Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:46:03 -0500 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> Cc: Vinco Maldini <vincomaldini@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected Soft Update Inconsistency / Cannot Read: Blk Message-ID: <162224496418.20021129114603@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20021129111613.W84905-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> References: <20021129111613.W84905-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> 2) Are there any BSD tools for reading the SMART data off the Hard Disk >> so that I can see whether it is about to fail or currently experiencing >> HW failure. Any other ways to check for bad sectors? >> JH> I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I JH> can't find it in the archives. I'm honestly not sure if anything like JH> that is available. Searching the FreeBSD site did not yield any results. JH> My best suggestions is to check google. FYI, from -stable, Eduard Martinescu is in the process of porting the Smartmon tools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/) to FreeBSD. He's waiting for Soren Schmidt to commit some changes to the ATA driver to support the SMART ATAPI commands before he can finish the port. -Neill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?162224496418.20021129114603>