On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:34:06AM -0700, Michael Marsh wrote: > > I run fedora as a samba server and have just recovered from my second > hard disk crash in only 8 months. Is there a way that i can monitor > and fix hard disk health between disasters? It is necessary to track the drive temperature on all the devices in a server. smartd can do that. (smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon). Also there are some tuning params that could make a drive quick on a workstation and die on a server. Do not over tune the drives in a server. ( see hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters) Add an extra fan if you can, make sure the air flows. Of interest the smartd stuff can log drive temperature and some other persistent params. A vendor can check to see if you cooked the drive and deny you a warranty replacement. You might as well watch the same stuff that they can see. I have not heard of a vendor cutting an individual off but they could. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
