Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:49, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 08:21 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
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I am hoping for comments, etc. Thank you in advance.
Have you monitored the temperature of the system at all times? Heat can
play a major roll in causing drives and other hardware to fail long
before it should. Good air flow around the system/drives is critical.
I have not. Any recommended tools , methods ? Thank you.
Install hddtemp, then have the hddtemp service start on startup
(system-config-services, or appropriate tools). With the service
starting, drive temperatures can be accessed through the command "telnet
localhost 7634" or from remote machines (see man hddtemp). Or just use
the "hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/hda /dev/hdb" command, with the
appropriate device names. You can also use gkrellm and the
gkrellm-hddtemp plugin with the hddtemp service running to have a
constant temperature display for all drives that hddtemp can recognize
(it didn't work for any of my drives until a recent update, now I don't
have any that it can't read).
-Dan
