On 11/28/06, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > Of course on such > > hardware, i always install the serveraid manager program to monitor disks > > and not smartd ... > > Do you mean this java monstrosity or is there anything "smarter" > available by now? If your using Dell hardware (i.e. perc RAID controllers and SCSI disks), you can use background patrol read and smart alerts: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.pdf Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net