One mistake--make sure you place the POSIX path to the script in quotation marks: osascript "/path/to/file". Sorry about that

set disklist to do shell script "diskutil list | grep /dev/"

set EachDisk to words in disklist

repeat with CurrentDisk in EachDisk
	if CurrentDisk as text is not equal to "dev" then
		try
			set status to do shell script "diskutil info " & CurrentDisk & " | grep SMART"
			if not (status is "   SMART Status:       Verified" or status is "   SMART Status:       Not Supported") then
				tell application "Finder"
					display dialog "A hardware problem has been detected on your hard drive:" & return & return & status
				end tell
			end if
		on error errStr
			tell application "Finder"
				display dialog errStr
			end tell
		end try
	end if
end repeat

I just made a geektool entry of "diskutil info disk0 | grep Verified > /dev/null"

Then I set the default icons and turned on icon display. If disk status is "Verified" then I get a green icon, if it's not I get red.

I edited the script as I wanted to have a DAILY HARD DRIVE VERIFIED STATUS message window displayed, not just when the "Drive Failed".

Click on the link below and it will automatically download to your computer (This link will expire Dec.31.2003):

http://homepage.mac.com/cyberbrent/filechute/SMART_Disk_Check.zip

I also used CRONNIX to add the scheduled time for this script to run daily under my user name CRONTAB. This is a very simply program for a newbie or advanced user - nice GUI.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7486

Regards

Brent

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"You alone define your limitations"

Question: Is the SMART status verified a) when the diskutil utility is run, b) only at boot-up, or c) once every xx hrs?

Does anybody know the answer?

For some reason I have it in my head that the SMART status is checked maybe only at boot-up, status is stored somewhere, and then diskutil simply retrieves the status from that "somewhere".

Am I wrong?

#!/bin/sh
############################
## declare some variables ##
############################
driveok="Verified"
drivecheck=`diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART | awk '{ print $3 }'`
################
## do my test ##
################
if [ $drivecheck != $driveok ]
then
diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART > /tmp/diskcheck
mail -s "Disk Check" youremail@whatever.com < /tmp/diskcheck && rm /tmp/diskcheck
fi

diskutil info disk0 | awk '/SMART/ {print $3,$4}'

#!/bin/sh

# Script to test SMART status of mounted drives
# By Allan Marcus
# Los Alamos National Laboratory
# 2004-02-25
# This script and its contents are placed in the public domain by the author

# First get the list of devices
DISKS=($(diskutil list | grep ^\/))

# Set a warning flag to 0 - everything OK
# will be set to 1 if there is a problem later
WARNING=0

# If you want to do something if there is a reported problem
# then do it here.
# Note that mail (sendmail) is not set up to send mail by
# default on a Mac, so you can't just use "mail"
on_warning() {
	echo "***DANGER WILL ROBINSON***"
	echo "A SMART problem was reported with $1"
	echo
}

# now loop through each device and test to see if it's SMART enabled,
# and verified

for ((index=0 ; index < ${#DISKS[*]} ; index++ ))
do
	echo
	echo "Results for ${DISKS[index]}"
	df -h | grep ${DISKS[index]}
	RESULT=$(diskutil info ${DISKS[index]} | grep "SMART Status")
	if [ $? == 0 ]; then
		echo "     $RESULT"
		if ! echo $RESULT | grep -q Verified ; then
			# set the warning for the exit status
			on_warning ${DISKS[index]}
			WARNING=1
		fi
	else	
		echo "     SMART not supported on this device "
		echo "     (generally only supported on IDE hard drives)"
	fi
done
exit $WARNING[</code]

This command makes a horrible drive parking noise on an intel MBP running 10.5.6. Anyone else experience this or know another method, or the cause of this noise?