On Sat, November 13, 2010 8:32 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
- what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit
down ?
- what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should
such failure occurs again ?
Can you use SMART?
Also, the main problem I've seen has
On Sat, November 13, 2010 9:13 am, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
Can you use SMART?
Thinking was a bit fuzzy this morning. I was thinking that you might
be able to write a bash script using smartmon. Any bash script would have
to have something like this in it...
smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sdb
On Sat, November 13, 2010 5:52 pm, David Balnaves wrote:
I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive.
I've used smart on a lot of hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart
values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart
reports they
Hi,
I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config
on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid
array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And
this is on a different raid controller.
So... if you have a backup of
