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From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>
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>> 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


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