On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:47 pm, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > > If this is a normal SCSI disk (ie. not SATA), I would use smartctl to > > > check if this disk has errors. > > > > It is a SATA disks :( > > So, when I run smartd, it says that currently it doesn't support SATA. > > When you can bring the machine down, you might want to boot a recent > kernel (>= 2.6.15) and test the disk with smartctl. (knoppix probably will > not work, but a recent live-cd that has 2.6.15 and smartctl). > > FC4 with the 2.6.15 kernel worked. You'll probably have to wait until EL5 > for smartctl libata support in CentOS. As has emerged from the '[CentOS] SMART for SATA devices ?' thread, the just released 2.6.9-34 kernel that ships with EL4 U3 supports smart over libata (Red Hat backported this from 2.6.15) by using something like: smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda I'm mentioning it here for future Google reference :) Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]