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From: Arno on 20 Oct 2009 05:01 bbbl67 <yjkhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 19, 9:46?am, Ant <a...(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: >> Thanks all. Someone should update Wikipedia's datas too. > Ouch! It looks like there is a war going on within that Wiki article's > talk section. Almost as bad as any war that goes on in here. :-) > Yousuf Khan I am staying out of that. Some people just want to believe in the snake-oil. Typically not those that actually understand what a product does. Arno
From: Ant on 20 Oct 2009 11:10 On 10/19/2009 9:54 AM PT, Arno typed: > Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: >> On 10/18/2009 4:04 PM PT, Arno typed: > >>> Incidentially several other tools will run regular surface >>> scans, and they are critical for early problem detection. > >> Thanks. Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans? > > Yes. I meant you can shedule them to run automatically at set > intervalls. Smartctl cannot do that, but the smartd in the > same package can and at least n Debian does as default. Interesting. Can I run it as not a daemon and do it all at once when I am not using the computer? Sort of like running chkdsk /f /r type of thing. -- "Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. They exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." --Lewis Thomas /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Arno on 20 Oct 2009 15:21 Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: > On 10/19/2009 9:54 AM PT, Arno typed: >> Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: >>> On 10/18/2009 4:04 PM PT, Arno typed: >> >>>> Incidentially several other tools will run regular surface >>>> scans, and they are critical for early problem detection. >> >>> Thanks. Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans? >> >> Yes. I meant you can shedule them to run automatically at set >> intervalls. Smartctl cannot do that, but the smartd in the >> same package can and at least n Debian does as default. > Interesting. Can I run it as not a daemon and do it all at once when I > am not using the computer? Sort of like running chkdsk /f /r type of thing. If you want to run the surface scan manually, just use smartctl -t long <device> Arno
From: Ant on 21 Oct 2009 00:58
On 10/20/2009 12:21 PM PT, Arno typed: >>>>> Incidentially several other tools will run regular surface >>>>> scans, and they are critical for early problem detection. >>>> Thanks. Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans? >>> Yes. I meant you can shedule them to run automatically at set >>> intervalls. Smartctl cannot do that, but the smartd in the >>> same package can and at least n Debian does as default. >> Interesting. Can I run it as not a daemon and do it all at once when I >> am not using the computer? Sort of like running chkdsk /f /r type of thing. > If you want to run the surface scan manually, just use > smartctl -t long <device> Um, I did mention that earlier "Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans?". ;) Thanks though. -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |