Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:33:01 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Promise ATA/133 Errors With 2.6.10+ |
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:11:36PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 18:59 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sad, 2005-06-25 at 09:35, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > BTW2 could it be that somewhere a timeout has been lowered in recent > > > > kernels? That must have been pre-2.6.11 then. > > > > Timeouts have not changed or have increased in fact. > > Never mind, the offending harddisk has ceased to be yesterday, it is no > more. > > What really bothers me, though, is that until the very last moment it > was alive, it didn't report any smart error, nor did any self test fail. > I guess IBM is to blame here :-(
Most drives report no SMART problems until they die. I've seen several drives who weren't able to read/write or at least remap bad sectors, and still their SMART statistics were almost perfect. The SMART event log included the errors, though.
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