From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID? Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:57:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20060905205727.GD17634@percy.comedia.it> References: <44FD722C.7050608@waldoware.com> <44FD91D1.7090501@maine.edu> <20060905154156.GB28548@scavenger.homeip.net> <44FDC21C.7050203@maine.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44FDC21C.7050203@maine.edu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Steve Cousins List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: > > >Benjamin Schieder wrote: >>On 05.09.2006 11:03:45, Steve Cousins wrote: >> >>>Would people be willing to list their setup? Including such things as >>>mdadm.conf file, crontab -l, plus scripts that they use to check the >>>smart data and the array, mdadm daemon parameters and anything else that >>>is relevant to checking and maintaining an array? >> >> >>Personally, I use this script from cron: >>http://shellscripts.org/project/hdtest nice race :) >I am checking this out and I see that you are the writer of this script. >I'm getting errors when it comes to lines 76 and 86-90 about the >arithmetic symbols. This is on a Fedora Core 5 system with bash version that is because smartctl output has changed and the grep above returns no number. >3.1.7(1). I weeded out the smartctl command and tried it manually with >no luck on my SATA /dev/sd? drives. which command? >What do you (or others) recommend for SATA drives? smartmontools and a recent kernel just work. also you can schedule smart tests with smartmontools. so you don't need to cron scripts. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \