Re: [PLUG] firewire drive errors

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Flint Heart wrote:
> I'm also using smartd to monitor my disks now. hopefully I'll get a
> heads up before a drive goes down (which i've heard you will
> ususally get smart errors before the disk will actually go belly up
> on you)

Smartd is good, but it appears only to work on internal drives.  Is it
possible to make it work with external firewire drives?  Inside their
enclosure they're still IDE.

-- 
 Jeff

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