<HTML><BODY><P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><BR>Hello<BR>I have a question about checking disk I/O errors on linux:<BR><BR>So, I used a solaris OS from oracle for a last period of time and found that it has a interesting option of iostat: -e and -E keys that<BR>shows HW and SW errors of disk usage, like this:<BR><BR>from solaris man:<BR><BR>-e Display device error summary statistics. The<BR>total errors, hard errors, soft errors, and<BR>transport errors are displayed.<BR><BR>-E Display all device error statistics.<BR><BR><BR><BR># iostat -e<BR>---- errors ---<BR>device s/w h/w trn tot<BR>dad1 0 0 0 0<BR>dad2 0 0 0 0<BR>sd1 0 0 1 1<BR>nfs1 0 0 0 0<BR>nfs6 0 0 0 0<BR><BR># iostat -E<BR><BR>dad1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0<BR>Model: XXXXXXXX Revision: 8.01 Serial No: XXXXXXXX<BR>Size: XXX.00GB <XXX bytes><BR>Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0<BR>Illegal Request: 0<BR><BR>sd1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 1<BR>Vendor: XXXXX Product: CDW/DVD XXXX Revision: XXXX Serial No:XXXX<BR>Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes><BR>Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0<BR>Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0<BR><BR><BR>So, this is the great info that is very useful for many purposes, but it is not available on linux(((( Does anybody knows why?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>Is any existing solution on linux that supports this features? <BR><BR>Bye, Igor</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><BR><BR><BR>Bye, Igor<BR></BODY></HTML>