On Wednesday 14 September 2005 18:45, Craig White wrote: > > If your drive/controller support smart try smartctl and check your drive > > that way. > > Also run dmesg and look in /var/log/messages for the complete output of > > your messages. > > ---- > afaik - smart doesn't work on scsi drives >From the man page of smartctl: DESCRIPTION smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technol- ogy (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. Smartctl is even able to probe devices inside a 3ware raid. Unfortunately scsi smart support is not as common as ide smart... Peter.