On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 09:29 -0400, Gene Poole wrote: > I've very recently upgraded 2 of my machines. One machine was > upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and the other machine was > upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. On machine 1 I have 2-hard > disks (both Seagate's - 500 GB and 1000 GB), on machine 2 I have > 1-hard disk (Western Digital 320 GB). All of the interfaces are SATA. > The questionable status is that on machine 1 the 500 GB drive is > showing as failing and on machine 2 the 320 GB drive is showing as > failing. Neither drive, under the old releases, showed up as failing. > How do I know that these drive are truly failing? That's because older distributions didn't have automatically enabled disk health monitoring GUI software. Fedora 11 does. The health monitor reads the SMART data of the disks. This is not a software questions, the hard drives report that they are failing. You can read the raw SMART data with # smartctl -A /dev/sda where sda is your disk drive device (you need to run this as root). -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
