[conspire] Looking for some OSS tools...

[Don Marti]

begin  Edmund J. Biow quotation of Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:40:42AM -0700:

> I gather there is no open source tool that would test drive mechanical
> integrity and would work with disks from any maker?  (I haven't
> blundered over one, if there is.)  

If the drives have SMART support, you can use
smartmontools.  More info in "Monitoring Hard Disks
with SMART"

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983

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