[mythtv-users] 'wa' field in 'top' is +90% when recording a show

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/21/06, Daniel Walton <dwalton at cisco.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 cromworshipper-mythtvlist at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Examine the drives with smartctl:
> >
> > # smartctl -a /dev/hda
> >
> > or, if you're using SATA drives
> >
> > # smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
> >
> > If you're getting warning messages, take out that drive.
> >
> > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > John
> >
> BINGO!! smartctl registred 113 errors with my second drive :(  At least now I
> know what to replace.
>
> Thanks for the help everyone.


you may want to run the smart monitoring tools as a daemon to check
your keep track of your drive health.

--
Steve