From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 02:20:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2367E16A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:20:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42CB43D77 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:20:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so1188767wxc for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:20:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fTKeep/1rJ8ZdaW/r+QKwmlIyvYgs1hUwcZsT64g0hMpT7s0xtSXjZkIdQVnLuUyHz9XEmkY1Zdy+qXP8THL+Pa5934mPGncgOTLXEFApfe/Lx/6GrfA6gzblTvjvYZxh+GQLD6gVjiG0cN6CkD6yAg/46PyzSm8Aj6FbOwwoF0= Received: by 10.70.52.18 with SMTP id z18mr3341169wxz; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.9.10 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:14:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70e8236f0511221814p5f50efecs6815a3e7c90543b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:14:04 +0000 From: Joao Barros To: Drew Tomlinson In-Reply-To: <4383CE63.6000700@mykitchentable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4383CE63.6000700@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How To Monitor Disk Errors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:20:40 -0000 Try smartmontools: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/smartmontools/ If you have IBM Deskstars see if there is newer firmware available. On 11/23/05, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from > what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and > still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the > console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the > "click of death" coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some > miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. > > I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some > way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace > the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked > /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is > there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors > since boot? > > Thanks, > > Drew > > -- > Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse > Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! > > http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- Joao Barros