From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: andre@linuxdiskcert.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:54:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7D3979.72D598C9@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020227102544.GA3226@codepoet.org> <E16g5YG-0004gk-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020227184758.GA9260@gondor.com>
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...
I had two DTLA-series IBM drives. Both of them started having problems, nothing
showed up on IBM's own bootable floppy based SMART tests, and both of them died
with no SMART warnings.
I'm not at all confident that SMART is all that useful.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-27 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 17:38 IDE error on 2.4.17 Simon Turvey
2002-02-26 17:58 ` André Dahlqvist
2002-02-26 18:20 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2002-02-26 18:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26 18:50 ` Simon Turvey
2002-02-26 19:01 ` David Rees
2002-02-26 19:12 ` Simon Turvey
2002-02-26 20:48 ` Chris Friesen
2002-02-26 19:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26 19:09 ` Simon Turvey
2002-02-26 20:03 ` Hans-Christian Armingeon
2002-02-26 20:05 ` Skip Ford
2002-02-27 9:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-27 10:25 ` [PATCH] " Erik Andersen
2002-02-27 14:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-27 18:47 ` Jan Niehusmann
2002-02-27 18:53 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-02-27 19:26 ` Jan Niehusmann
2002-02-27 19:54 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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