Bug 15337

Summary:	monitor S.M.A.R.T. parameters for disk health
Product:	hal	Reporter:	Sam Morris <sam>
Component:	hald	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sam Morris 2008-04-03 05:37:13 UTC

[ forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/468158 ]

> On harddisks that have SMART capabilities, hal should monitor this data.
> This would allow e.g. a Gnome utility application to easily warn the
> user if one of his harddisks is dying.

This would actually be pretty neat. Traditionally this has required the installation of smartmontools which is pretty daunting and confusing.

Comment 1 Danny Kukawka 2008-04-03 13:42:12 UTC

I'm not sure if this is something we want to have in HAL. I don't think we want to duplicate code from the smartmontools in HAL. If someone want this, smartmontools should include maybe a addon to do this, but IMO nothing we should add to the HAL package.

Please request/propose this to the authors of smartmontools

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