Eric Anderson wrote:
On 08/28/06 21:10, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
Greetings,
I have a hard drive that every now and then makes a sound like the
head is moving from one extreme to the other, then parking. It is
hard to explain, kind of a towk-kok-click with a metallic ring to
it. If you have heard a drive do this before, you know the sound. I
heard a drive do this to me a few months ago and it failed shortly
thereafter.
I have 3 drives in the system so it is very hard to know which drive
it is, so in an attempt to get a new drive before the one fails out
right, is there any way I can test the drives in place? One drive is
primarily my system disk (20G), the second (120G) has /usr mounted on
it, and the third (120G) is mounted, rsync'd, umounted every night to
make a backup of the other two. So, the backup drive I can test no
problem, even destructively if necessary. However, the two that make
up the active system I would like to be able to test without
disrupting normal operation if possible? But, I'll take the box
offline for a bit if necessary. Any insight would be greatly
appreciated.
You didn't mention what type of drives, so I'll assume ATA. Take a
look at smartd.
Eric
Sorry, forgot that part. Yes, they are ATA-100 (IBM deskstar if I
remember correctly). I'll look into smartd, thanks for the info!
Matthew
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