Re: Disk heads won't park

[Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> You can try using smartctl to check the status of the drive(s) in question (e.g.
> "smartctl -H /dev/sda", though this is just a real quick check - check the man
> page for all options) .  There is (IIRC) also a monitoring daemon that can be
> set up ... though I've never used it, and don't recall the name.

Thanks for your input. I was going to set up smartd (very thorough man
pages), but this problem started. Well, actually it's not the first
time i've heard a drive going like this, but it usually stops after a
while.
All drives pass smartctl -H and they're all in "active/idle" (hdparm
-C). I'm running -t long on sdb now (it'll be over in about 2h).