Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:48:59 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:38:43AM -0700, you [Andreas Dilger] claimed: > > Oh, I know SMART is implemented, although I haven't actually seen/used a > tool which takes advantage of it (do you have such a thing?). It would > be nice if there were messages appearing in my syslog (just like the > AIX days) which said "there were 10 temporary read errors at block M on > drive X yesterday" and "1 permanent write error at block M, block remapped > on drive X yesterday", so I would know _before_ my drive craps out
There are packaged smartsuite and ide-smart at linux-ide.org. I think smartd from smartsuite does just that.
At least smartctl does read the values in understandable format.
BTW: does anyone know if it is supposed to understand the temperature sensors supposedly present in newer IBM drives?
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