From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 04:22:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BEB16A4DD for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:22:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@digitalstratum.com) Received: from mail.mundomateo.com (static-24-56-193-117.chrlmi.cablespeed.com [24.56.193.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A8B43D46 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@digitalstratum.com) Received: from [10.0.81.14] (unknown [10.0.81.1]) by mail.mundomateo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7990BBDC4C; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:22:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44F3C160.3020300@digitalstratum.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:24:00 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty Organization: Digital Stratum User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <44F3A211.7050907@digitalstratum.com> <44F3A30C.1080305@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <44F3A30C.1080305@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard disk going-bad detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@digitalstratum.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:22:08 -0000 Eric Anderson wrote: > On 08/28/06 21:10, Matthew Hagerty wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I have a hard drive that every now and then makes a sound like the >> head is moving from one extreme to the other, then parking. It is >> hard to explain, kind of a towk-kok-click with a metallic ring to >> it. If you have heard a drive do this before, you know the sound. I >> heard a drive do this to me a few months ago and it failed shortly >> thereafter. >> >> I have 3 drives in the system so it is very hard to know which drive >> it is, so in an attempt to get a new drive before the one fails out >> right, is there any way I can test the drives in place? One drive is >> primarily my system disk (20G), the second (120G) has /usr mounted on >> it, and the third (120G) is mounted, rsync'd, umounted every night to >> make a backup of the other two. So, the backup drive I can test no >> problem, even destructively if necessary. However, the two that make >> up the active system I would like to be able to test without >> disrupting normal operation if possible? But, I'll take the box >> offline for a bit if necessary. Any insight would be greatly >> appreciated. > > > > You didn't mention what type of drives, so I'll assume ATA. Take a > look at smartd. > > Eric > > Sorry, forgot that part. Yes, they are ATA-100 (IBM deskstar if I remember correctly). I'll look into smartd, thanks for the info! Matthew