On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 22:16 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Tue 16 Jun 2009 21:27:10 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > > PS Did I say "smartmontools"? > > > > > Hmmm let's take this machine and have a look... > > The question was regarding a 120GB hard disk drive. There are none of > those that don't support smart. It became the "done thing" around 10GB > or so. Or in other words, there are no disk drives still under warranty > that don't do smart. The fundamental problem you're sidestepping is that there is no standard and no requirement for a monitoring interface on disks storage. To quote from the smartmon faq,
"The raw SMART attributes (temperature, power-on lifetime, and so on) are stored in vendor-specific structures. Sometime these are strange." ( ain't that the case - smartctl reports one of my servers hdd temps between 60 and 65 degrees C - all 5 of them - when none of them are more than warm to the touch! But they're constant, except for slight seasonal changes which even seem to affect data centres worldwide ) Until there is a standard and requirement, you can't *guarantee* it will work or rely on the results. It'll *probably* work, there are plenty of cases where it plain doesn't work... like my SSD here - which is certainly under warranty, and, as you mentioned USB - which will become important soon when linux becomes the first OS to support USB 3. Until that time, smartmon is a really useful tool, but it's not the sole solution you make it out to be. Steve
