who to use smartmontools

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:19 +0200, René L. Reingard wrote:
> Hi,
> I could enable SMART in BIOS. fine!. and I checked syslog after a restart,  
> but could not find any anomalies regarding hda (Harddisk).
> not even the word Error was to be found in syslog. I guess things still  
> run somewhat well.
> thank you to both of you.
> René
> 
> 
Glad to hear that.  To make sure, here's what "smartd" logs in my system
when I first start it:
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: smartd version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a' Directive on line 23 of file /etc/smartd.conf
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
  Jul 25 02:35:32 localhost smartd[7144]: Problem creating device name scan list
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hda, packet devices [this device CD/DVD] not SMART capable
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Unable to register ATA device /dev/hda at line 23 of file /etc/smartd.conf
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdc, opened
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdc, found in smartd database.
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdc, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdd, opened
  Jul 25 02:35:34 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdd, found in smartd database.
  Jul 25 02:35:35 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdd, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
  Jul 25 02:35:35 localhost smartd[7144]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
  Jul 25 02:35:35 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdc, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
  Jul 25 02:35:35 localhost smartd[7144]: Device: /dev/hdc, 2 Offline uncorrectable sectors
  Jul 25 02:35:36 localhost smartd[7162]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=7162.
  Jul 25 02:35:36 localhost smartd[7162]: file /var/run/smartd.pid written containing PID 7162

>From above, you could see there are two problems in my "/dev/hdc"
device.

I hope you found this informative.
Ziyad.