How To Monitor Disk Errors?
I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the click of death coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors since boot? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How To Monitor Disk Errors?
On November 22, 2005 09:05 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the click of death coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors since boot? Thanks, Drew Check out /sysutils/smartmontools in the ports. It could be what you need. When installed, a simple smartctl -H /dev/*disk* like : smartctl -H /dev/ad0 will tell you if your drive is healthy or not. You can also set up the smartd which will check your drives at certain intervals. Nicolas -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 19 12:36:29 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc pgp0ncXariPbZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How To Monitor Disk Errors?
Try smartmontools: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/smartmontools/ If you have IBM Deskstars see if there is newer firmware available. On 11/23/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the click of death coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors since boot? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How To Monitor Disk Errors?
On 11/22/2005 6:18 PM Nicolas Blais wrote: On November 22, 2005 09:05 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the click of death coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors since boot? Thanks, Drew Check out /sysutils/smartmontools in the ports. It could be what you need. When installed, a simple smartctl -H /dev/*disk* like : smartctl -H /dev/ad0 will tell you if your drive is healthy or not. You can also set up the smartd which will check your drives at certain intervals. Nicolas Thanks for your reply. However it appears I need to be at FBSD ver 5.0 or higher to use this tool. Here's the output: blacksheep# smartctl -H /dev/ad0 smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd4.11] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ATA support is not provided for this kernel version. Please ugrade to a recent 5-CURRENT kernel (post 09/01/2003 or so) Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
