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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: nuitari@balthasar.nuitari.net (Nuitari)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, venom@sns.it,
	xavier.bestel@free.fr, mark@veltzer.org
Subject: Re: Hi is this critical??
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:27:49 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209161827.g8GIRndk001827@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209161921090.14787-100000@balthasar.nuitari.net> from "Nuitari" at Sep 16, 2002 07:23:32 PM

> > If so, why not to use S.M.A.R.T with smartd and smartctl?
> > I think you will like them (loock on freshmeat for the link).
> 
> I don't think S.M.A.R.T should be the all mighty god of dying hard drive 
> detections. Many times I had dying IDE drives that wouldn't show much 
> difference on S.M.A.R.T tests and would stay in operationnal parameters 
> until it refuses to spin up or was just covered in bad sectors.

S.M.A.R.T. is useful to prove that a drive is dying, but it is not useful to prove that it is not.

I.E. if you get a S.M.A.R.T. message saying that the drive is dying, then believe it, and back up your data, but don't rely solely on S.M.A.R.T. to detect a dying drive.

In any case, though, check out:

http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml

John.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-16 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-16 20:05 2.4.19 - not a real problem raptor
2002-09-16 13:31 ` Hi is this critical?? louie miranda
2002-09-16 13:34   ` DevilKin
2002-09-16 13:37   ` venom
2002-09-16 13:47     ` Xavier Bestel
2002-09-16 14:16       ` Mark Veltzer
2002-09-16 14:14         ` Xavier Bestel
2002-09-16 15:57           ` venom
2002-09-16 23:23             ` Nuitari
2002-09-16 18:27               ` jbradford [this message]
2002-09-16 22:46                 ` venom
2002-09-17  5:18                   ` Nuitari
2002-09-17  8:02                     ` jbradford
2002-09-17  8:20                       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-17 10:41                         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-17 11:09                           ` Russell King
2002-09-17 11:17                             ` Alan Cox
2002-09-17 12:02                               ` Russell King
2002-09-17 12:17                                 ` jbradford
2002-09-17 12:02                               ` jbradford
2002-09-17 18:39                                 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-18  6:00                                 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-09-17 17:34                             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-17 17:54                               ` Russell King
2002-09-17 19:30                                 ` jbradford
2002-09-17 18:34                             ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-18  5:56                             ` Daniel Berlin
2002-09-17 18:23                           ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-16 14:43       ` Russell King
2002-09-17  8:40       ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-17  9:03         ` jbradford
2002-09-16 14:53   ` Alan Cox
2002-10-05 12:58 ` 2.4.19 - not a real problem Adrian Bunk

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