From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 22 12:35:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.sereb.net (ip51-16.dialup.wplus.net [195.131.51.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6B237B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from lev.sereb.net (lev.sereb.net [192.168.1.1]) by freebsd.sereb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA36920 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:32:54 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:34:04 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.47 Halloween Edition) Personal Reply-To: Lev Serebryakov X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18987629344.20001122233404@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: All Subject: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, All! How are you? Now here is no `bad144' utility. Everybody say ``modern HDDs could do hardware remaps of bad blocks, and if here is visible bad blocks, it means HDD will die soon, so buy new HDD ASAP and throw bad one away''. Ok. I agree with it. IDE HDDs are cheap now, and information is expensive. But here is one problem: sometimes ASAP means two days or even two weeks (especially, in Russia). Sometimes we need wait salary, need bank transfer from firm to shop or something like this. But HERE IS BAD SECTORS RIGHT NOW! We understand, we need to buy new HDD when we see ``hard read error''! And we need to live with bad HDD for days! I see god solution: monitor HDD health by downloading relocation table and S.M.A.R.T. information from it daily (in cron job). When script detect, that relocation table is near to be full or here is 1000 new relocations in one day, it sends mail to root, and we have some time to buy new HDD. But I could not find any utility for FreeBSD, which could get S.M.A.R.T. information and relocation table from HDD... So, we need such utility. Does anybody know -- is such utility exists? Lev Serebryakov /-----------------------------------------------\ | FIDONet: 2:5030/661.0 | | E-Mail: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru | | Page: http://lev.serebyrakov.spb.ru/ | | ICQ UIN: 3670018 | | Phone: You know, if you have world nodelist | \===============================================/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message