From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751486AbWFJKvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:51:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751487AbWFJKvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:51:43 -0400 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:14523 "EHLO lug-owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486AbWFJKvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:51:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:51:41 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Justin Piszcz Cc: smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net, Remy Card , "Theodore Ts'o" , David Beattie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: The Death and Diagnosis of a Dying Hard Drive - Is S.M.A.R.T. useful? Message-ID: <20060610105141.GE30775@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Justin Piszcz , smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net, Remy Card , Theodore Ts'o , David Beattie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G2kvLHdEX2DcGdqq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --G2kvLHdEX2DcGdqq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-06-10 06:23:32 -0400, Justin Piszcz = wrote: > SUMMARY: > I pose the following question in the subject, as over the years running= =20 > smartd and having failed disks, I have always first been alerted of bad= =20 > sectors and such through dmesg or logcheck. Even with a bad disk I=20 > currently have, smartd does not pickup any errors, except those with the= =20 > kernel writes to syslog. What do smartctl -H smartctl --all tell you? MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --G2kvLHdEX2DcGdqq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiqQ9Hb1edYOZ4bsRAi9AAJ9SjcQqdl7pOfVoi+qSfQ4oLk3sfQCfYsTx TczeIlKFVgpFgRN6amCGvTQ= =ucrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G2kvLHdEX2DcGdqq--