Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has
been behaving strangely since I put it in. for one thing, the BIOS
S.M.A.R.T. came up with a warning the last time I booted with it
enabled, saying that I should backup my data and replace the disk (!).
I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and
I have some time yet to take it back, but I'd like to know for sure that
it needs it, or at least have some reasonable evidence of failure.
What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some
assurance of errors or lack thereof?
I found that older versions of smartmontools (even the one included with
CentOS 5) do not handle newer onboard SataII controllers. In my case,
one system is running CentOS 4 -- that motherboard has an Nvidia MCP
northbridge (sata_nv). I ended up building kernel 2.6.20.1 to get it
working better. My other machine has an Intel P965 Express northbridge.
In the former case I downloaded the smartmontools-5.37.2 source and
built it; in the latter I downloaded the fedora core 7 development
source rpm for smartmontools (also 5.37-2). In both cases smartctl -a
started working properly with the combo a newer kernel and latest
version of smartmontools.
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