Re: ide problems?
Unfortunately SATA drives are not yet covered by smartmontools AFAIK, and
right now, I dont think there is a method of querying the drives.
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From: "Michael Loftis" <mloftis@modwest.com>
To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 10 January, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: ide problems?
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> --On January 9, 2006 10:20:07 PM -0500 Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org>
wrote:
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> > I had similar errors, ignored them for 24 hours and then wowed our
users
> > with 24 hours of downtime restoring from backup. It was the drive.
> >
> > apt-get install smartmontools
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> > ...may allow the hard drive to tell you that is failing.
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> Never have I seen S.M.A.R.T. predict nor provide any hint of an
impending
> failure. Usually the first signs were the DMA failures, all the while
> SMART reporting everything A/OK, and no errors logged until just before
> they finally died, then it'd usually log some.
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