>> 2) Are there any BSD tools for reading the SMART data off the Hard Disk >> so that I can see whether it is about to fail or currently experiencing >> HW failure. Any other ways to check for bad sectors? >>
JH> I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I JH> can't find it in the archives. I'm honestly not sure if anything like JH> that is available. Searching the FreeBSD site did not yield any results. JH> My best suggestions is to check google. FYI, from -stable, Eduard Martinescu is in the process of porting the Smartmon tools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/) to FreeBSD. He's waiting for Soren Schmidt to commit some changes to the ATA driver to support the SMART ATAPI commands before he can finish the port. -Neill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
