>>>>> "MSH" == Matthew S Hallacy <poptix at techmonkeys.org> writes: MSH> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:11:31PM -0600, Jon Schewe wrote: >> I've got a system with a Promise FastTrack IDE RAID card in it and I'm >> wondering how one goes about monitoring it for drive failuers. I found out >> that I can cat /proc/scsi/FastTrack/0 and get some information and I could >> automate this, but I'm thinking that someone else has probably already done >> this and probably done it better than I will. Any suggestions? MSH> I'm fairly sure that those report SMART monitoring information -- I'd MSH> recommend trying out the smartctl package, and google for harddisk monitoring MSH> as there's a few different versions of the SMART monitoring stuff. Thanks for the tip. I just tried it and all I got was this. I'm assuming it'll say something like 'Sense: drive failed' if a drive fails? So I should just run this in a cron job and have it email me when something other than 'Okay' shows up? Here's my output: # smartctl -a /dev/sda Device: Promise 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Version: 1.10 Device supports S.M.A.R.T. and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported S.M.A.R.T. Sense: Okay! -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list