Re: [PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

Andre Hedrick
2002-02-27T19:07:46Z

Did you enable smart?
Did you run the captive smart tests?

If this is on you / drive DO NOT run captive mode, the kernel go into
starvation mode.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jan Niehusmann wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:59:28PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This is the wrong approach. That information is available properly if and
> > when the vendors install the smart utilities
>
> Doesn't necessarily help. I recently saw a hard drive which made funny
> noises and got really slow reading some parts of the drive (~30MB/s on
> some parts, ~300kB/s on others), but ide-smart didn't report failed
> tests. Two days later the drive was dead...
>
> It was an IBM 60GB drive, but I don't remember the exact type. It
> called itself "IC35L060AVER07-0".
>
> Jan
>
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Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development