Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
The ideal should be to use the SmartTools utilities, but, if I'm right, there're problems with SATA support.
smartctl on CentOS >= 4.3, supports SATA just fine.
At least, you can boot with liveCD-util (like UltimateBootCD, for example) and check the HD integrity.
why not use the CentOS-4 LiveCD ?