Hello
   I believe that this box has a SMART aware disk / controller. You 
could try using smartmontools. Its in pkgsrc in
sysutils/smartmontools . I have not tried this but In osx you can see 
this status.

Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> I' m running NetBSD and MacOSX on the same G4 machine. Anyone knows 
> how to check disk status?
>
>  dmesg doesn't show any of interesting.
>
> Nuno
>
>
> On 2007/02/01, at 02:25, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>>>> I'm getting some problem with PMG4 with a Promise Ultra133/ATA:
>>>
>>> Sounds like a cable problem. On the other hand ATA66 vs. ATA100 is
>>> hardly a loss, I doubt that any of the other drives could even come
>>> close to saturating an ATA33 channel.
>>>
>>>> wd0(pdcide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66) (using
>>>> DMA)
>>>> wd0c: error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
>>>> wd0: (aborted command, interface CRC error)
>>>> wd0: soft error (corrected)
>>>> boot device: wd1
>>
>> I've had this problem for forever with my Promise U133/ATA and I've 
>> tried
>> different cables, drives, you name it. It's not just the cable.
>>
>> I think I filed a PR about this a while back.
>>
>> ----------------------------------- personal: 
>> http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ ---
>>   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * 
>> ckaiser@floodgap.com
>> -- Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. 
>> -------------------
>
> Nuno Teixeira
>
>
>
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