Karanbir Singh wrote:

Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:

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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.

Sounds good. I'll give it a try.

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At least, you can boot with liveCD-util (like UltimateBootCD, for example) and check the HD integrity.

why not use the CentOS-4 LiveCD ?

I downloaded the CentOS-4 LiveCD last night. The system is running from the hard drives at the moment, but if it dies again, I'll try the LiveCD.