[TriLUG] Failing hard drives (laptops)

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, T. Bryan wrote:

> Speaking of failing hard drives, I have an old thinkpad T23 that has started
> to lock up randomly.

run smartd on it (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/)

presumably this will work on laptop drives.

I have smartd running as a cronjob on all my desktops doing 
the long (smartctl /dev/hd${whatever} -t long) test once a 
week and the short test (smartctl -c /dev/hd${whatever}) 
every hour and send me e-mail if there's a problem or if 
everything's OK, send a message via logger.

Joe

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