Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Thanks for the information. I also have my hard drives cooled (in > this case, each hard drive has three fans blowing across it.) I also > buy my hard drives locally and generally use Western Digital or > Maxtor. These drives are great; however,

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hi, > Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) > to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It > seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that > one of the drives was

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-15 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:03AM -0500, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hi, > Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) > to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It > seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that > one of the

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-15 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > i "claim" that one should just buy better drives ... > than to monitor for it to fail > ( buy it brand new from the local pc store ) > ( vs letting the ups/fedex gorillas toss it onto the shelf/floor > ( during transport/deliveries > >

Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-15 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hi, Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that one of the drives was about to die, but I don't know if the smartmontools package will