Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:59:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:59:07 -0400 Received: from balthasar.nuitari.net ([216.40.249.34]:18664 "HELO nuitari.nuitari.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:59:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:18:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Nuitari To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hi is this critical?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1139 Lines: 29 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). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/