Strange HD behavior

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 3/26/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <legvalmont at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried the seagate tools (seatools). While it did not find any bad
> block, it nevertheless hung after completing the process, just before
> showing any report. So I think my HD is okay. BTW, it's a ST380022A.
>
> I thought that maybe there could be issues related to temperature. Is there
> any sort of watchdog in FreeBSD that gets installed by default? =/ Has
> anyone ever had a problem like this?
>
> Thanks for the answers / tips / help, but now I've got more questions. :)

Smartmontools can show the temperature of a smart-enabled
HDD. Healthd might be able to do that, too, but I'm not sure.

Check the smart error-logs anyway.