From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 5 17:45:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38B816A417 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjudd2k@yahoo.com) Received: from web62413.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web62413.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.75.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3AFD13C428 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjudd2k@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 90209 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Aug 2007 17:45:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=UVKvw+y3kIzUkD2Qig4sZxUZTwoYHetQV34UHzkzmoA8uERmy9mtkoJuvepw4JqMb6velpCaC3ogxkCDoEvNPqgAS/hpjTwLJTN047xEETgD+FsAQ3RoFunYnzZmgGce2i3cnspvOcCn8CR4jigIdyOnVI/nu4+7FMPKo/VNFN4=; X-YMail-OSG: SfnuuwMVM1n08Q.8ppoyETVyVf1nN2FMy1NdVqnxTrRyVJw9P6vqmr9535yIj9LRZ7gEytpwIZxPOG37QySvVdjr6fXj4JUA.DmUCsbmp2ZgvGB2x8E4rq97.KvBLMlO Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62413.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:45:05 PDT Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:45:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Judd To: Damian Vicino MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <573460.89378.qm@web62413.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Using Smart-Fail HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:45:07 -0000 I'm on the digest list. I have copied/pasted the OP ---------------------QUOTE: Message: 17 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:00:07 -0300 From: Damian Vicino Subject: Using Smart-Fail HD To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <46B4E8D7.4060700@dc.uba.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello. Im Having FBSD running in a P3 with 4.3GB HD, and got 2 extra 80GBs HD that fails the SMART check. I did a full HD scan with tools provided by the HD's developers and over 90% of the HDs are safe. I want to use those HD for home of the lowrank users, and keep the critical data in the 4GB HD. Do u know any pretty safe FS for this kind of unstable hardware, i was thinking in something with software RAID maybe. Thanks for any suggestion, im pretty new on FBSD world (and english-speak world too). BTW, if the solution can be applied to DFBSD, it will be very nice, becouse i got another machine P1 runnning it, and all HDs i can get for it use to have a lot of failures already. See ya Sdäv --------------------/QUOTE Damian, You might find Steve Gibson's SpinRite a really useful purchase. It recovers most drives it works on, and a single purchase can be use on any of your personal drives. It is it's own bootable floppy or CD, and works very well. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm I recommend using that now, and then tread lightly until you feel confident about the drives again. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "I can" is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz