HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables.

2000-11-22 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, All! How are you? Now here is no `bad144' utility. Everybody say ``modern HDDs could do hardware remaps of bad blocks, and if here is visible bad blocks, it means HDD will die soon, so buy new HDD ASAP and throw bad one away''. Ok. I agree with it. IDE HDDs are cheap now, and

Re: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables.

2000-11-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lev Serebryakov wrote: I see god solution: monitor HDD health by downloading relocation table and S.M.A.R.T. information from it daily (in cron job). When script detect, that relocation table is near to be full or here is 1000 new relocations in one day, it sends mail to