On Monday 24 July 2006 06:19am, Dieter Stüken wrote: > Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > 4. Are there better ways I could have handled this (other than the > > obvious like RAID to start with, etc.)? > > Hi Lamont, > > I strongly suggest to use: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > to monitor all disks. In most cases you get warnings about > problems with your disks weeks before they fail completely. Thanks :), I'll check it out. Since my home file server is now growing, that's just the kind of monitoring I want for the future. > > A few months ago, I started seeing some unreadable sectors on the 45GB > > drive. > > ... but you have to take it seriously :-) Absolutely; and I did take the indications seriously. Unfortunately, the accounting department (a.k.a. my wife & my bank account) couldn't help me out fast enough. Of course, the good news is that she now knows first hand (well 1.5 hand, I guess) what it's like to have a disk go bad with data on it. That should help me get parts faster in the future :) . -- Lamont R. Peterson <peregrine@OpenBrainstem.net> Founder [ http://blog.OpenBrainstem.net/peregrine/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: 0E35 93C5 4249 49F0 EC7B 4DDD BE46 4732 6460 CCB5 ___ ____ _ _ / _ \ _ __ ___ _ __ | __ ) _ __ __ _(_)_ __ ___| |_ ___ _ __ ___ | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| _ \| '__/ _` | | '_ \/ __| __/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ | |_| | |_) | __/ | | | |_) | | | (_| | | | | \__ \ || __/ | | | | | \___/| .__/ \___|_| |_|____/|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|___/\__\___|_| |_| |_| |_| Intelligent Open Source Software Engineering [ http://www.OpenBrainstem.net/ ]
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