On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, T. Bryan wrote:
Speaking of failing hard drives, I have an old thinkpad T23 that has started
to lock up randomly.
run smartd on it (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/)
presumably this will work on laptop drives.
I have smartd running as a cronjob on all my desktops doing
the long (smartctl /dev/hd${whatever} -t long) test once a
week and the short test (smartctl -c /dev/hd${whatever})
every hour and send me e-mail if there's a problem or if
everything's OK, send a message via logger.
Joe
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