From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180712261213p68de8b5bp8bc4a07a9f06ec2f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:13:41 -0700 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ata drive capabilities In-Reply-To: <20071226195247.GE16180@hermes.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10712252231u167ae5c2k616534728b97e338@mail.gmail.com> <20071226195247.GE16180@hermes.my.domain> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 226c8740-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > How do you check if your disks are still ok? i used to run cmp on the two mirrorred partitions to verify weekly that devfs hadn't missed anything. i would imagine if one of the disks went south cmp would fail.