On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:37:31PM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
-> S.M.A.R.T. should do this for you.
->
-> It should remap bad spots and warn you of any as they occur. Though the
-> messages are still a bit cryptic... "This drive is developing problems...
-> please replace".
Actually, that error message is suitably concise for most users, aka "user
scum" :-)
If you mean "ide-smart", from Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar at
lightside.ddns.org> - August 04th 1999, 18:13 EST
"ide-smart performs and queries the results of various non destructive
tests on a SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
capable IDE device, warning the administrator when a device is about to or
already failing. You must have a BIOS and hardware that supports SMART."
The URL Freshmeat points to is 404ed. A quick search on Google showed some
Mandrake RPMs, though.
Thanks for pointing it out to me. It looks interesting.
Now, can we get something like it for SCSI drives?
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