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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:53:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
To: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
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Did you enable smart?
Did you run the captive smart tests?

If this is on you / drive DO NOT run captive mode, the kernel go into
starvation mode.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, 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...
> 
> It was an IBM 60GB drive, but I don't remember the exact type. It
> called itself "IC35L060AVER07-0".
> 
> Jan
> 
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Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project                Linux ATA Development

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