From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 17:14:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC5F16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:14:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10B643D55 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041123171457i92002b38te>; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:14:58 +0000 Message-ID: <41A3700F.9050805@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:14:55 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041119) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <41A2A7B2.4000601@confabulator.net> <20041123030351.GA31803@dan.emsphone.com> <41A2CCFA.4000408@confabulator.net> <20041123034553.GB48882@dan.emsphone.com> <6.2.0.14.2.20041123062022.00acec58@localhost> <41A35DBF.1010208@confabulator.net> <41A3537D.8090403@nbritton.org> <20041123155546.GF48882@dan.emsphone.com> <41A36111.2050100@nbritton.org> <20041123164028.GH48882@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041123164028.GH48882@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Ryan J. Cavicchioni" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:14:59 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > >One nice tool to install is ports/sysutils/smartmontools, which will >monitor the error counters kept by the drive and let you know if it's >going bad. Works on both SCSI and ATA disks. > > Cool, what about drives that have a built-in temperature sensor... When I had windows on this box I use a little freeware utility called DTemp that sat in the systray, It monitored drive temperature as well as SMART: http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/ Does Gnome have an equivalent utility?