Hard disk going-bad detection
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Tue Aug 29 02:14:38 UTC 2006
On 08/28/06 21:10, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a hard drive that every now and then makes a sound like the head
> is moving from one extreme to the other, then parking. It is hard to
> explain, kind of a towk-kok-click with a metallic ring to it. If you
> have heard a drive do this before, you know the sound. I heard a drive
> do this to me a few months ago and it failed shortly thereafter.
>
> I have 3 drives in the system so it is very hard to know which drive it
> is, so in an attempt to get a new drive before the one fails out right,
> is there any way I can test the drives in place? One drive is primarily
> my system disk (20G), the second (120G) has /usr mounted on it, and the
> third (120G) is mounted, rsync'd, umounted every night to make a backup
> of the other two. So, the backup drive I can test no problem, even
> destructively if necessary. However, the two that make up the active
> system I would like to be able to test without disrupting normal
> operation if possible? But, I'll take the box offline for a bit if
> necessary. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
You didn't mention what type of drives, so I'll assume ATA. Take a look
at smartd.
Eric
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