Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:43:35AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: On Sunday 06 August 2006 19:11, Daniel van Eeden wrote: The HDD tools I use are: * smartmontools smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda # show info for SATA disk smartctl -a /dev/hda# show info for PATA disk smartctl -t long /dev/hda # start long test for PATA disk I have now installed smartmontools on a raid1 machine with debian amd64 dual opterons and two hard disks, used for computation only. At the installation: Not starting SMART daemon smartd, disabled via /etc/default/smartmontools Question: should I activate smartd? Yes. Although SMART doesn't catch all errors it's good enough to warn for the most common cases. However, SMART and RAID are no substitute for backups. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
On Sunday 06 August 2006 19:11, Daniel van Eeden wrote: The HDD tools I use are: * smartmontools smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda # show info for SATA disk smartctl -a /dev/hda# show info for PATA disk smartctl -t long /dev/hda # start long test for PATA disk I have now installed smartmontools on a raid1 machine with debian amd64 dual opterons and two hard disks, used for computation only. At the installation: Not starting SMART daemon smartd, disabled via /etc/default/smartmontools Question: should I activate smartd? thank you francesco pietra * hddtemp hddtemp /dev/sda# check temperature for SATA disk * hdparm hdparm -I /dev/hda # show info about acoustics mgmt and more * e2fsprogs badblocks -w /dev/hda # do an DESTRUCTIVE write test on PATA disk Testing SCSI disks can be don with Seagate Seatools Enterprise for Linux. (32-bit only?) Cheers, Daniel On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:20 +0900, 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]
What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
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]
Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
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]
Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
The HDD tools I use are: * smartmontools smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda # show info for SATA disk smartctl -a /dev/hda# show info for PATA disk smartctl -t long /dev/hda # start long test for PATA disk * hddtemp hddtemp /dev/sda# check temperature for SATA disk * hdparm hdparm -I /dev/hda # show info about acoustics mgmt and more * e2fsprogs badblocks -w /dev/hda # do an DESTRUCTIVE write test on PATA disk Testing SCSI disks can be don with Seagate Seatools Enterprise for Linux. (32-bit only?) Cheers, Daniel On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:20 +0900, 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]
