[plug] HDD scan

[Michael Van Delft]

Gnome/Palimpsest Disk Utility is good. I haven't used it for a while but
from memory you don't need to unmount the disks to check them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_Disk_Utility

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Fred Janon <fjanon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Check the Hitachi web site, if I remember correctly their utility works for
> all drives, except for some proprietary commands. I think they run from a
> floppy or CD too. Sorry, it has been a long time since I last checked.
>
> Seagate used to have tools that don't require Windows too.
>
> Fred
> --- On
> Fri, 6/17/11, Jon Miller *<jonl711 at hotmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jon Miller <jonl711 at hotmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan
> To: "Perth Linux User Group" <plug at plug.org.au>
> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 7:21 AM
>
>
>  The problem is the drive has some errors that prevents it from booting up
> so I get  GRUB error 17 and upon further investigation found that the drive
> is reporting:
> sda: Current: Sense key: Medium error
>   Additional Sense: Unrecovered read error
>   Info fld=0xa2
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 162
> Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 81
>
> It's a Seagate ST318406LW 18GB SCSI drive and Seagate does not have any
> tools that run from Linux only on Windows.  I'm hoping I can find a utility
> that can check the drive in Linux or from a boot CD and mark the bad blocks.
>
>
> Regard,
>
>
> Jon
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:39:20 +0800
> From: james at rcpt.to
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> CC: jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan
>
> On 16/06/2011 4:36 PM, Jon L Miller wrote:
>
>  Can anyone recommend a good hdd scanning software to check for hard drive
> conditions, while server is up?
>
>
> I'd suggest smartmontools as a start:
>
> Description: control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.
>  The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and
> smartd)
>  to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis
> and
>  Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and
> SCSI
>  hard disks. It is derived from the smartsuite package, and includes
> support
>  for ATA/ATAPI-5 disks. It should run on any modern Linux system.
>
>
>
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