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by **gvelmuru..** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:36:46

Hello,

How can I find whether my Hard Disk is good or bad.

Thanks,

Velmurugan G

by **Bernd Hau** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:56:22

> How can I find whether my Hard Disk is good or bad.

It's eeeeeeeevil.

Use the analyze tools in format(1M) (esp IDE disks), extract the grown
defects in format (SCSI/FC), or, for FS "bad", use fsck(1M).

Read the manpages for those and also:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

KTHX?

lg, Bernd
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by **gvelmuru..** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:16:38

Thanks for your reply Bernd. I heard some command named "healthcheck",
but I dont know the exact command name, that will show the status of
HD.

by **Eric Enrigh** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:26:24

> Thanks for your reply Bernd. I heard some command named "healthcheck",
> but I dont know the exact command name, that will show the status of
> HD.

Are you perhaps thinking of drives with SMART capability?
I have heard that http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ does
work to some degree on Solaris.

Eric

by **Jorgen Moquis** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:55:27

>>Thanks for your reply Bernd. I heard some command named "healthcheck",
>>but I dont know the exact command name, that will show the status of
>>HD.

> Are you perhaps thinking of drives with SMART capability?
> I have heard that http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ does
> work to some degree on Solaris.

> Eric

works very well, scsi & ide on sparcs, x86 scsi only.
as i know.
/j?rgen

by **gvelmuru..** » Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:43:31

Thank you all. SMART tool is really superb. It is showing more
information than "healthcheck" command in Solaris, but I didnt get what
is the name of that Solaris command.

Thanks,
Velmurugan G

by **Jorgen Moquis** » Sun, 25 Sep 2005 04:22:15

> Thank you all. SMART tool is really superb. It is showing more
> information than "healthcheck" command in Solaris, but I didnt get what
> is the name of that Solaris command.

> Thanks,
> Velmurugan G

dont know iostat -E shows Predictive info on my cd (X86)
/J?rgen

$ iostat -E
sd0 Soft Errors: 282 Hard Errors: 16 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: Product: DVD+RW RW5240 Revision: 1.08 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 11 No Device: 5 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 282 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

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