Re: ide problems?
Oh it does, it'll catch a failing drive about 20-30% of the time (from
someone who works in a returns department)
Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On January 9, 2006 10:20:07 PM -0500 Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org>
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>> I had similar errors, ignored them for 24 hours and then wowed our users
>> with 24 hours of downtime restoring from backup. It was the drive.
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>> apt-get install smartmontools
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>> ...may allow the hard drive to tell you that is failing.
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> Never have I seen S.M.A.R.T. predict nor provide any hint of an
> impending failure. Usually the first signs were the DMA failures, all
> the while SMART reporting everything A/OK, and no errors logged until
> just before they finally died, then it'd usually log some.
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