Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:30:03 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to detect hard disk failure ? Message-ID: <20030516092757.A77647-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <444r3v6hfl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 15 May 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Is there a way to detect hard disk failures using either a shell script
> > or C program ? So that I can take appropriate action in case of a hard
> > disk failure.
>
> You can keep watch the logs for errors accessing the disks...
You can do a "dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=64k" to read the entire disk
surface - if there are bad blocks, read errors will show up on the
console.
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