From: "Per Øyvind Karlsen" <pkarlsen@mandriva.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disk diagnostics
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:24:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401070724.20426.pkarlsen@mandriva.com> (raw)
Torsdag 19 oktober 2006 10:50, skrev vincent@cojot.name:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> > Oh well, I guess that I could just put it in a x86 box and run
> > diagnostics there if nothing else, less hazzle than installing solaris at
> > least..
>
> Is smartctl available on Linux/Sparc? I know it is available in most
> distros and also works on Solaris/Sparc.. If your disks are recent
> enough and smartctl is available on Linux/Sparc, you could ask them to
> perform the smartctl selftests and report their S.M.A.R.T status...? Most
> modern/post-36Gb disks have S.M.A.R.T, i think...
>
> I hope this helps..
Yes, I've been looking into smarttools, but as far as I get it, it won't take
care of fixing things at such a low level as reallocating spare sectors to
replace bad sectors on disk, it refers to the use of 'badblocks' etc. on a
file system level..
--
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Mandriva
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-07 6:24 Per Øyvind Karlsen [this message]
2006-10-18 20:59 ` disk diagnostics Per Øyvind Karlsen
2006-10-18 21:59 ` Chris Newport
2006-10-18 22:30 ` Per Øyvind Karlsen
2006-10-18 23:12 ` Hamish Greig
2006-10-19 8:50 ` vincent
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