From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 04:43:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE8316A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:43:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from cydem.org (S01060060977141e2.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.15.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375D013C447 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from soralx (soralx [192.168.0.240]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 1A47A7ECF8 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:43:00 -0700 From: To: Message-ID: <20070627214300.319cbe41@soralx> In-Reply-To: <7D3EA7E7-CF83-4385-A8FC-611B886CC7E3@patpro.net> References: <7D3EA7E7-CF83-4385-A8FC-611B886CC7E3@patpro.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: hardware/driver incompatibility ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:43:44 -0000 > - 2 Western Digital WD2500YS hard drives > - 1GB RAM [...] > Is there any way I could test my HD to detect/prevent failure ? install smartmontools from ports then: smarctl -t long /dev/ad4 after a couple hours check status: smartctl -a /dev/ad4 Western Digital harddisks are notoriously unreliable (I just had 2 WD5000YS fail recently, at about the same time; one had ~200 hrs on it, the other ~1700h), especially the YS models. Also, WDC won't replace them... Beware. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2