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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:28:43 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Subject:   Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?
Message-ID:  <200503141328.44226.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050312215400.08a664a7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
References:  <20050312215400.08a664a7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>

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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
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