From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 02:59:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECF416A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A1543D41 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:59:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2E2wjhK094604; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:28:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:28:43 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <20050312215400.08a664a7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20050312215400.08a664a7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3337275.CxeIpvek88"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503141328.44226.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen Subject: Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:59:06 -0000 --nextPart3337275.CxeIpvek88 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:24, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Does FreeBSD (stable) have any tools that I can use to run diagnostics > on an external hard drive? Have you tried smartmontools? It probably won't work (most enclosures don't appear to implement the=20 necessary brains to translate the SMART commands) but you could be lucky :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3337275.CxeIpvek88 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCNP3k5ZPcIHs/zowRAkdhAJ0YXOvZ+U/gKMv1JSNh9JMyzJZnngCgjUW+ mY0jeE0JQSCPzrAXCqsjY3o= =xET4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3337275.CxeIpvek88--