Richard.Prosser@POWERWARE.COM wrote:

> you can download harddrive analysers off the web. They use the SMART
> monitoring built into the hard drive which claims to be able to identifty
> 70% of all drive problems before they become fatal. You may need to enable
> the SMART monitor from your bios/setup.

Hey Bob, if you do want to do SMART tests and the disk supports it,
there was an article on doing this in either Linux Format or Linux
Journal this month.  Neither are here at the office, but I can check
which it was and post links from them if that'd be helpful.

Nate, nate@natetech.com

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