On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 18:59 +1300, Peter Lambrechtsen wrote: > Check out dmidecode which queries the smbios and gives you some > "okish" stats on the HDDs which is outside of SMART. Thanks - but ... root at ruby:/home/richard# dmidecode # dmidecode 2.9 # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry. Never mind. Thanks, Richard