On Jul 12, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Todd Vierling wrote:

> For ATA drives, pkgsrc/sysutils/smartmontools is your best friend.   
> It will
> monitor the SMART data from the drive, which typically can warn of  
> impending
> failure because of lack of available remap blocks.  However, it's  
> best if
> you start using smartd *before* a failure so that it can monitor.  8-)
>

I'll put that on the new install, thanks!

Brian