[plug] Failing disk drive

[Denis Brown]

Hello Richard.

I suspect this is too simplistic an answer but smartctl is the tool to 
use.   smartctl --help for example or this 
page:    http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html

As to simultaneous drive failure...  Possible I guess (bad batch) but I 
would probably be looking for more of a common factor such as power supply 
or cooling.  ???

HTH,
Denis


  At 09:11 PM 14/04/2008, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've been having fun with my system hanging, and so just to get it over
>with, I bought a new motherboard and memory and installed the old disk
>drives.
>
>Now I' getting the following:
> > Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART 
> self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
> > Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, FAILED SMART 
> self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
> > Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Prefailure 
> Attribute: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct changed from 137 to 135
> > Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage 
> Attribute: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count changed from 93 to 90
>
>How do I see the SMART stats, and how likely is it that 2 disks would
>fail "at the same time"? OK, sda failed a couple of days ago, and I
>moved the data off of it.
>
>
>--
>Richard Meyer
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>It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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>
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