Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:18:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nuitari <> | Subject | Re: Hi is this critical?? |
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 venom@sns.it wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Yes, of course, and this was exaclty what was asked here in the mail > from xavier that started this thread. The point is if S.M.A.R.T will > advice before you see seek errors messages from the kernel or not.
It never advised me before seeing problems in the kernel (I had about 5 drives dying running Linux machines).
It should be trivial to just grep the kernel log for the error and mail it to some address.
Another way to prove a dead drive is (after a backup) to drop it some until it made a nice broken drive sound (a very high pitch shriek) and bring it to the store that sold it to you (ideally a small one as they are less technically challenged then big chains).
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