Thomas's post might help, but have you had a look at the Linux SMART project, to let you read the drive status? On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 02:28, Jinn Koriech wrote: > hi all, > > well - i've been running ataraid on my mandrake 8.2 for ... dunno - > months. all is fine, but i'm concerned about anticipating failure on > the drives, or knowing when the drive has failed without ever seeing the > box. > > is there any way to know if a drive is fialing or has failed while the > system is running? the box is a fileserver, and hence is never really > rebooted. i guess i'm asking how to get the status on a device > reliably. > > thanks, > jinn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
