On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:34:08AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Ben, > > I have seen mentioned (or advertised) software that claims to do just that. > I thought you may know about such. Perhaps someone on your Gazette.
A quick bit of looking around on the Net shows that the basics of such a feature already exist and are built into the hardware: http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/qual/featuresSMART.html Looking further, it seems that Linux, at least, can monitor SMART status: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ I've just told my system to fetch and install both 'smartmontools' and 'smart-notifier' (the graphical 'hard disk health' notifier), so now I've got exactly what I wanted (a classic example of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. :) Thanks, Norm! -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
