Re: [PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

Jan Niehusmann
2002-02-27T18:48:48Z

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