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Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection
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Hi,
    I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up 
it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection 
line as well as specifying the individual drives. If this does work i'd like 
to know about it as i believe i might have one failing drive, but am not 
sure which one.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
To: "Robin Becker" <robin@reportlab.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection


> On 9/20/06, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:
>> After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a 
>> about
>> Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if
>> anyone
>> can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent
>> failure
>> of one of the disks? Do I use something like smartctl in a cron or what?
>
> When you installed smartmontools to get smartctl, it should have also
> installed smartd. It will run in the background and notify you of
> significant changes. man smartd for details.
>
> - Bob
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