On 05.09.2006 22:57:27, Luca Berra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > > > >Benjamin Schieder wrote: > >>On 05.09.2006 11:03:45, Steve Cousins wrote: > >> > >>>Would people be willing to list their setup? Including such things as > >>>mdadm.conf file, crontab -l, plus scripts that they use to check the > >>>smart data and the array, mdadm daemon parameters and anything else that > >>>is relevant to checking and maintaining an array? > >> > >> > >>Personally, I use this script from cron: > >>http://shellscripts.org/project/hdtest > > nice race :)
As in race condition? Where?
> >I am checking this out and I see that you are the writer of this script.
> >I'm getting errors when it comes to lines 76 and 86-90 about the
> >arithmetic symbols. This is on a Fedora Core 5 system with bash version
> that is because smartctl output has changed and the grep above returns
> no number.
I'm running smartmontools 5.33 here. When did the output change? It still
works fine here.
> >What do you (or others) recommend for SATA drives?
>
> smartmontools and a recent kernel just work.
> also you can schedule smart tests with smartmontools. so you don't need
> to cron scripts.
Interesting. I'll look into that.
Greetings,
Benjamin
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