Re: dealing with a failing drive

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On 11/18/07 11:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Hi David, apologies to Jerry for jumping in.

Compaq uses several RAID cards most are under the so-called
"SmartArray" using the ida driver. If this is yours, you can
use a utility called "idacontrol" that can monitor the array,

Hi Ted,

Thanks much for this info. I'm pleased to report that idacontrol thinks
the logical array is in good shape. (This is on an identical server; I
moved both disks from a RAID1 array there after the first server started
reporting write and read errors.)


NOTE:

The smart utility only works on SATA or ATA/IDE drives, not SCSI.

Yes. I've heard it said that "SMART isn't."

This Proliant DL320 server uses a SmartArray controller and SCSI disks.
SMART or not, is there a way of monitoring the health of the physical
disks from within FreeBSD?

thanks again!

dn



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