October 9, 200817 yr Article from Linux Journal for those who may be interested. Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
October 30, 200817 yr Author More information which may be helpful and a tool. http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/index.php See attributes page http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/attributes.php The attached tool is from the nagios suite of plugins. Hopefully this will help diagnosis a lil easier. I don't have any failed drives, but those who may have some, please report your tests to show feasibility of this tool's usage.
November 1, 200817 yr What is this beastie supposed to do? I have a failed drive I keep for testing... spins up and can get SMART info, but reading the partition table (actually any sector) fails.
November 1, 200817 yr Author The check tool is to signal when a drive is failing specific smart tests. It's part of the nagios suite. I'm trying to gather output to see what results are like on failed tests. The smartctl tool is good for gathering tests, however we allso see that it reports the drive as PASSED until it's near critical. I'm hoping this tool willl give an earlier indication. One way or anothe if I'm going to do something with the LCDProc suite, I'll have to test the drives, so finding a good tool is on my list of things to di. (other then writing it from scratch).
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