I saw there might be a package for that: apt-cache show smartmontools
I haven't however looked at it, so I do not how it works... Bye, Halva Craig Hagerman wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering what utilities I can use to check the health of my hard > discs. On my mac powerbook I can check the S.M.A.R.T. status. A few > months the powerbook indicated the drive was about the fail. I backed > everythign up and sure enough it DID fail shortly aftewards. I just > had some strange messages on the console. I did an update and rebooted > to find messages like: > "driveready seekcomplete error" > > which is worrying. Debian wouldn't start up infact. I shutdown and > restarted in another partition (Ubuntu 32) which did start up OK. I > tried Debian again and it failed to boot. Tried Ubuntu and it failed. > (Getting quite worried here.) Tried the 3rd partition (windows) and it > did boot. After shutting down, Debian booted with no problem. Now I am > wondering if there is a serious underlying problem, but don't know > what utilities I can use to assess the situation. > > Any advice about utilities to use would be much appreciated. > > Craig Hagerman > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]