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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: Broken harddisk
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:57:42 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:02:54PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
>Mike Hardy wrote:
>>If you're drives don't talk SMART (older ones don't, it doesn't work 
>>through all interfaces either) then by all means take Guy's advice. A 
>>'dd' test is certainly valuable. But if they do talk SMART, I think its 
>>better
>
>True enough. However, until SMART support makes it into linux SATA 
>drivers I'm pretty much stuck with dd!
>
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/

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