On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: [ … ] > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made > good hard drives. One of my cnc'd machines has a 250G in it, shut off > only for new installs, still running wheezy. No reallocated sectors, > the last time I looked, at probably 90K+ spinning hours its fine. I'd > query it, but smartctl seems to have been removed, so what now serves > that purpose of interrogating a drive on wheezy??
I don't think so, unless you removed it yourself: $ ls -Glg smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_amd64.deb -rw-r----- 1 578692 Jun 19 2011 smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_amd64.deb $ md5sum smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_amd64.deb 603319007d32d580b19c065bfe34b7b7 smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_amd64.deb $ was just downloaded from: http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/smartmontools/ [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1+b1_kfreebsd-amd64.deb 2012-02-15 01:05 550K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1+b1_kfreebsd-i386.deb 2012-02-14 22:21 550K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1.debian.tar.gz 2011-06-19 15:48 38K [TXT] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1.dsc 2011-06-19 15:48 1.5K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_amd64.deb 2011-06-19 16:18 565K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_armel.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 544K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_armhf.deb 2011-12-07 15:16 529K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_i386.deb 2011-06-19 15:48 567K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_ia64.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 682K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_mips.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 567K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_mipsel.deb 2011-06-20 07:34 561K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_powerpc.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 575K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_s390.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 568K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_s390x.deb 2011-12-02 00:15 576K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365-1_sparc.deb 2011-06-19 16:19 567K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365.orig.tar.gz 2011-06-19 15:48 631K Take your pick. Cheers, David.