Comments on: Monitoring hard disk health with smartd under Linux or UNIX operating systems

By: Stefan Lasiewski

Stefan Lasiewski — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:50:08 +0000

I see that smartctl is often from from a cronjob (On FreeBSD, it can be run from periodic). What is the advantage of running a smartd daemon vs. running smartctl via cron?

By: Ashish Dhabarde

Ashish Dhabarde — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:44:34 +0000

try hdpram command……hope it will help u

By: thiyagi

thiyagi — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:22:27 +0000

Nice info..

By: richard

richard — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:28:39 +0000

thank yes i know now
i have expansion but no indexing on it and thats true for the main bios@133mhz
amd dimm :/ irq”s determined and requesting 16mb diskette
what can i do?????

By: Reynold P J

Reynold P J — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:30:52 +0000

Really helpful…
Thank you so much:)

By: tmohanta

tmohanta — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:21:52 +0000

Hi,
I have a linux server and different JBODs are connected to it i.e SAS enclouser, SATA enclouser ,FC enclouser , SCSI enclouser and SAS enclouser SAS and SATA drives are mixed. All the disks are in hardware raid (raid-1 or raid-6 or raid-5).

(1) I want to know the hard disk type- SATA ,SAS, FC etc.
In linux the device I am seeing as /dev/sda where 6 disks are there. The output I need as follows
/dev/sda disk serial no disk type size raid_type
/dev/sda ABCD121 SATA 1TB raid-5
/dev/sda ABCD122 SAS 1TB raid-5
/dev/sda ABCD123 FC 1TB raid-5
/dev/sda ABCD124 SCSI 1TB raid-5
/dev/sda ABCD125 IDE 1TB raid-5
/dev/sda ABCD126 SATA 1TB raid-5

I am planning to write the passthrough and ventor independent solution is required.
Any help on it.

Thanks in advance..

Thanks & Regds,
tmohanta

By: Dipak Zope

Dipak Zope — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:18:22 +0000

Can we configure smartd.conf to run some commands as soon as smartd catches disk failure?
I would like to stop a service which is nothing but my application, to prevent from corruption of its database, as soon as smart demon found any disk failure.
Can anyone please help me and guide about how to do it?

By: Charon

Charon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:09:20 +0000

for Fedora:
yum install smartmontools

By: Mohanad S.Azzam

Mohanad S.Azzam — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:00:18 +0000

hi
I wanna know the model of My HDD that already insatlleh in HP server model DL380.

I am very far from the site ,and i cant travel there to know the toal model number and details of old HDD .

it is possible to do command by linux to show me all the details and model numbers of my HDD ?

OS in redhat linux 4.
thanks ..

By: Tweeks

Tweeks — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:23:49 +0000

So what about motherboard based SATA controllers (such as sata_via)? How am I supposed to poll such sata drives? Neither -d ata nor -d sat works…? The actual drive kernel module is sata_via.. which in turn uses libata (it appears):
# lsmod |grep ata
sata_via 4208 2
libata 44124 0 [sata_via]
scsi_mod 105512 2 [sata_via libata sd_mod]

So why can’t I poll the drive w/smartctl? It is because this functionality is broken in sata_via?

Tweeks

By: soraver

soraver — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:21:16 +0000

Just to add that if you get the “Device does not support SMART” error with the “smartctl -i /dev/hda” command, but hddtemp or another smart based app is working, you might need to add the “-d ata” option :D

# smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA SAMSUNG HD501LJ Version: CR10
Serial number: S0MUJ1QP503708
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Tue Feb 26 13:18:16 2008 EET
Device does not support SMART

# smartctl -i /dev/sdb -d ata
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD501LJ
Serial Number: S0MUJ1QP503708
Firmware Version: CR100-10
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0×52
Local Time is: Tue Feb 26 13:20:56 2008 EET

==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details.

SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled