On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:39:17PM +0100, Jan Lambertz wrote: > I m not sure if you already investigated this but s.m.a.r.t. has quite many > diagnostic info. Even if the drive has not actually been marked as broken. > This is somewhat vendor dependent. I did not check these info with openbsd > but it should be possible.
You have smartmontools in packages. ---8<--- $ pkg_info smartmontools Information for http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/smartmontools-6.1.tgz Comment: control and monitor storage systems using SMART Description: The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. --->8--- > Facts from my hard drives include: > Bad sectors, read retries, write reatries and so on (dumped with some > windows tool) (I tried out smartmontools a couple of days ago and ran extensive tests on two disks in a RAID1 softraid. Both smartmontools and the BIOS test utility reported no errors, nevertheless I lost both disks - probably due to some damage caused by a failure with the PSU. Disks are black magic...)
