On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:18, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > You guys are really making me freak out about my Maxtor harddrive. > How exactly does SMART work? I had that working in one of the IBM > thinkpads before, but it only gave me "warning" on boot-time when the > drive failed. Is there anyway to tell if the harddrive is failing in real > time? > Smart checks some parameters of operations, plus there are some tests. If one of this parameters grow above a certain treshould, a warning is spilled. SMART will most probably not save you from sudden harddisk death, but can warn you about a harddisk going to be weak and dying soon. So, it is a good thing. Activate smart in the bios, install smartmontools and let smartd run. > > PS. Here in another part of Jersey, we got a miserable 3 inches. Not > enough to cancel school, but enough to make life miserable. and here in the Harz, wie have ~50cm ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
