On Tuesday 14 March 2006 14:08, Chris Wright wrote: > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > First, I apologize if this is rather OT. > > <snip> > The chances are that your MAXTOR drives are SMART capable (seeing as IBM > helped develop the concept/application). So you should consider running > a SMART aware application that can read the SMART information and > forewarn you of any impending problems. <snip> > Googling for SMART reporting will yield the names of some apps I think. Yes, the drive are SMART capable, and smartd is running. In the last failure before this one smartd gave me notification so I know something started to go wrong and did what I needed to do. In the recent failure I didn't get any notification and suddenly the whole system just died. When I tried to force the RAID back up and run fsck on it I got smart notification of unable to write to the disk. So probably this last failures is more catasthropic. I have never heard of "analysis of SMART data" though. I'll take a look at that. Thank you. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
