- How do I test if my Linux server SCSI / SATA hard disk going bad?
One of our regular sends us a question: How can I test if my hard disk is going bad? I see few errors in /var/log/messages file. I/O errors in /var/log/messages indicates that something is wrong with the hard disk and it may be failing. Next thing is check hard disk for error using smartctl command, which is control and monitor utility for SMART disks. smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and ...
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