To answer my own question, the ucsc-smartutils package provides a SMART
monitoring daemon and another tool for also retrieving SMART statistics. I
guess I just need to employ one of the log watching tools to look for
errors from the daemon.
I still wouldn't mind a better understanding of the actual output,
smartctl produces something similar but in a different format:
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
Revision Number: 11
Attribute Flag Value Worst Threshold Raw Value
( 1)Raw Read Error Rate 0x0029 100 253 020 000000000000
( 3)Spin Up Time 0x0027 057 057 020 00000000153f
( 4)Start Stop Count 0x0032 100 100 008 000000000015
( 5)Reallocated Sector Ct 0x0033 100 100 020 000000000000
( 7)Seek Error Rate 0x000b 100 100 023 000000000000
( 9)Power On Hours 0x0012 094 094 001 0000000010af
( 10)Spin Retry Count 0x0026 100 100 020 000000000000
( 11)Unknown Attribute 0x0013 100 100 020 000000000000
( 12)Power Cycle Count 0x0032 100 100 008 000000000015
( 13)Unknown Attribute 0x000b 100 093 023 000000000000
(199)UDMA CRC Error Count 0x001a 200 200 000 000000000000
(196)Reallocated Event Count 0x0010 100 253 020 000000000000
(197)Current Pending Sector 0x0032 100 100 020 000000000000
(198)Offline Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 253 000 000000000000
regards
Andrew
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It just crossed me as being a good idea (tm) to monitor my hard drives in case
> of imminent failure, and sure enough the ide-smart package exists. Cool. One
> problem, I have no idea how to read the output:
>
> daedalus:/usr/doc/ide-smart# ide-smart /dev/hda
> Id= 1, Status=41 {PreFailure , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id= 3, Status=39 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value= 57, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id= 4, Status=50 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 8, Passed
> Id= 5, Status=51 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id= 7, Status=11 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 23, Passed
> Id= 9, Status=18 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value= 94, Threshold= 1, Passed
> Id= 10, Status=38 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id= 11, Status=19 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id= 12, Status=50 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 8, Passed
> Id= 13, Status=11 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 23, Passed
> Id=199, Status=26 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value=200, Threshold= 0, Passed
> Id=196, Status=16 {Advisory , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id=197, Status=50 {Advisory , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 20, Passed
> Id=198, Status=16 {Advisory , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold= 0, Passed
> OffLineStatus=0 {NeverStarted}, AutoOffLine=No, OffLineTimeout=0 minutes
> OffLineCapability=27 {Immediate Auto SuspendOnCmd}
> SmartRevision=11, CheckSum=189, SmartCapability=3 {SaveOnStandBy AutoSave}
>
> Does anyone know how to decipher it, or of any good SMART references?
>
> Andrew
>
>
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