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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:25:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
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Subject: How to detect hard disk failure ?
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Hi all!

   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.

Thank you for your time.

-Pranav

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Pranav A. Desai