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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:39:12 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        lev@serebryakov.spb.ru (Lev Serebryakov)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (All)
Subject:   Re: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables.
Message-ID:  <200011222039.VAA06261@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <18987629344.20001122233404@serebryakov.spb.ru> from Lev Serebryakov at "Nov 22, 2000 11:34:04 pm"

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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


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