Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Hard drive fault prediction | From | Stephen Satchell <> | Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:20:01 -0800 |
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I'm running into a situation that starting to drive me bats: I'm seeing more hard disk failures, both in IDE and SCSI drives, and need some way of knowing when they are starting to go south. (With appropriate apologies to the Enzeds and Aussies on the list.)
Are there any drive-independent error counters I can monitor in 2.4 to be able to detect drive failures early? I've looked around and have found some counters in IDE that might help, but without a known failing drive I don't know if it will tell me much.
I'm looking for a lightway to find failures, so grepping /var/log/messages is out because it takes too many resources. I'm hoping there is something in the /proc file system (or whatever it's morphing to) that I can examine without taking disk accesses away from the primary task of the server.
Stephen Satchell
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