To answer my own question, the ucsc-smartutils package provides a SMART
monitoring daemon and another tool for also retrieving SMART statistics. I
guess I just need to employ one of the log watching tools to look for
errors from the daemon.
I still wouldn't mind a better understanding of the actua
Hi,
It just crossed me as being a good idea (tm) to monitor my hard drives in case
of imminent failure, and sure enough the ide-smart package exists. Cool. One
problem, I have no idea how to read the output:
daedalus:/usr/doc/ide-smart# ide-smart /dev/hda
Id= 1, Status=41 {PreFailure , OffLine},
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