From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 22 12:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C88137B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:39:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA06261; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:39:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200011222039.VAA06261@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables. In-Reply-To: <18987629344.20001122233404@serebryakov.spb.ru> from Lev Serebryakov at "Nov 22, 2000 11:34:04 pm" To: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru (Lev Serebryakov) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:39:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (All) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Lev Serebryakov wrote: > 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? I'm working on it, but its not available to the public yet... I'll announce it when I have it ready for general consumption... BTW not all ATA drives supports this... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message