Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 June 2009 05:17:41 Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:41:25 -0400, David dgbo...@comcast.net wrote: I thought that the OP was using real diagnostics. The BIOS or the testing software from the HD manufacturer. Not some cute little utility from 'some one out

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Antonio Olivares wrote: What if this notification is false? I got the notifications in three of four machines. Most of them new hardrives. Something is wrong with that program. I filed a bug against it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115 There is also another

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-10 Thread David
On 6/9/2009 6:38 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Tue, 6/9/09, David dgbo...@comcast.net wrote: From: David dgbo...@comcast.net Subject: Re: SMART - Please shut up!! To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, June 9

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 18:41:34 -0400, Andrew Jamison li...@blogmethat.net wrote: lol the drive is reporting as failing because of 2 bad sectors when I can afford to it shall be replaced but can not afford a new drive at present maybe next month You might be running smartd (part of

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:41:25 -0400, David dgbo...@comcast.net wrote: I thought that the OP was using real diagnostics. The BIOS or the testing software from the HD manufacturer. Not some cute little utility from 'some one out there' in Cyber-Space. SMART is a real standard and the

SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew Jamison
Ok i understand the reasoning behind displaying when drives are failing using SMART but for the love of all that is holy is there a shut up button somewhere? I knew the first 40 times that it told me my drive was failing i do not need a reminder every time i login how do i disable this

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Andrew Jamison li...@blogmethat.net wrote: From: Andrew Jamison li...@blogmethat.net Subject: SMART - Please shut up!! To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 12:23 PM Ok i understand the reasoning behind displaying when drives are failing using SMART

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread David
On 6/9/2009 3:23 PM, Andrew Jamison wrote: Ok i understand the reasoning behind displaying when drives are failing using SMART but for the love of all that is holy is there a shut up button somewhere? I knew the first 40 times that it told me my drive was failing i do not need a reminder every

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread David
On 6/9/2009 3:23 PM, Andrew Jamison wrote: Ok i understand the reasoning behind displaying when drives are failing using SMART but for the love of all that is holy is there a shut up button somewhere? I knew the first 40 times that it told me my drive was failing i do not need a reminder every

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Andre Robatino
David wrote: If it was *me* I would replace the harddrive. That would do two things. It solves the major problem, the dying HD, and also eliminates the dying HD warning. :-) Or you can turn this dying HD warning off in the computers BIOS. That's where mine is set yo on. That will turn off

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 6/9/09, David dgbo...@comcast.net wrote: From: David dgbo...@comcast.net Subject: Re: SMART - Please shut up!! To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 2:03 PM On 6/9/2009 3:23 PM, Andrew

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew Jamison
On 6/9/2009 5:03 PM, David wrote: On 6/9/2009 3:23 PM, Andrew Jamison wrote: Ok i understand the reasoning behind displaying when drives are failing using SMART but for the love of all that is holy is there a shut up button somewhere? I knew the first 40 times that it told me my drive was

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew Jamison
Right now I'm getting the Palimpsest failure warning as a result of a single reallocated sector. Smart's overall-health assessment is PASSED. I have Smart output from a former 8 GB drive (replaced due to obsolescence, not failure) showing 373 reallocated sectors, and Smart's assessment on

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Jamison wrote: lol the drive is reporting as failing because of 2 bad sectors when I can afford to it shall be replaced but can not afford a new drive at present maybe next month I'm not so sure. I'm not a SMART expert, but I suspect that the drive is reporting that it has two sectors