From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 12:32:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778D616A402 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from s200aog11.obsmtp.com (s200aog11.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0E1013C4B9 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from source ([217.206.187.80]) by eu1sys200aob011.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:03 UTC Received: from [10.0.0.89] (bill.mintel.co.uk [10.0.0.89]) by rodney.mintel.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABC918141B; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:32:03 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <464AFA22.30805@tomjudge.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:33:38 +0100 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Barnett References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Disk going bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:06 -0000 Jack Barnett wrote: > I think I have a disk going bad. Is there any tools for freebsd > that'll check the disk and let me know if there is a hardware problem > or not? > > (I'm getting ECC errors from my controller and trying to firgure out > if it's a bad controller or a bad drive [already checked the cables > and all that, so just have it down to these 2 peices of hardawre]) > > k, thanks! You might want to have a look at smartmon-tools its in ports. It may be able to do what you want. Tom