<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 13, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Drifter wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I am essentially clueless about the underpinnings of a Mac.<br>But, given the recent discussions on failing hard drives, I couldn't help <br>but remember my wife's recent PAIN -- the HD in her Mac laptop died and <br>that's when she discovered that her backup drive had died a week or so <br>earlier. (She hadn't understood the error messages she was getting.)<br>Two new hard drives later she is trying to recover what she can.<br><br>So this afternoon I checked and the command <smartctl> is not on her <br>machine. Is it available? If so, what is the download/install procedure?<br><br>Sean<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>You can probably find it in Macports, Homebrew or Gentoo prefix. I used Homebrew for a while and didn't care for how the permissions were structured (your user gets full rights to /usr/bin). I switched to Gentoo prefix and, while it's more involved to setup I've found it to be a great addition to my Macbook Air. I just searched within emerge as well and found that it has the package "smartmontools" available, might be worth looking in to.<br><div>
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