(Solved) hard drive monitoring

[OrdiDoc]

With Windows i'm using Hard Disk Sentinel so that i can see if there's any bad clusters, the temperature of the drive and other information. What would be the software that can replace it in PCLinux OS ?

[OrdiDoc]

Thanks dubigrasu, will try it.

I also installed smartmontools but can not seem to start it using the command smartctl -i /dev/hda but i'll see what GSmartControl can do

[OrdiDoc]

GSmartControl works fine and for the command line it was my mistake it should be smartctl -i /dev/sda   so it's sda rather than hda...

[OrdiDoc]

Ok thanks, i'll look for some applets but basically i'm more interested to see if there's any bad clusters or predicted hardware failure and also i need the program to be able to see it even if the hard drive is external.

I troubleshoot computers and has you know one of the reason that a computer is slowing down could be because the drive is having problem. In Windows, Hard Disk Sentinel does it for me, i have an icon in the TaskBar that is always there monitoring my drive and any other drive that i connect to my laptop using USB Port. Because i want to use only PCLinux OS for everything that i do i would like the software to do about the same if possible and if not i don't mind going back to Windows from time to time

[pags]

gkrellm (along with gkrellm-plugins) is supposed to be able to monitor HDtemp, but it didn't display anything for me 
(CPU temp displayed fine)

[OrdiDoc]

command not found in my konsole, something's wrong with the command 

[pags]

command not found in my konsole, something's wrong with the command 

You need to install it from Synaptic, first 

[OrdiDoc]

that's the secret....lol, thanks

[OrdiDoc]

working now, great

[OrdiDoc]

Great, thanks for the info 

[TheQuest]

Hi dubigrasu

just search for "palimpsest" in Synaptic, you won't be disapointed  

I have just installed palimpsest, but can not find it any where, can you tell me how to start it please?  

Take Care
TheQuest

Found how to start it  , with Run Command.  .
And as you said not disappointed with it.  Many thanks.