At 09:21 AM 30/03/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
IMHO you can take off JoeUser's tin hat & trust the app until you can prove otherwise but as always YMMV & if you decide to take this mission & get caught the Secretary shall disavow any knowledge. :-O
Heh heh. The problem here is the app is contradicting itself. The drive says that an error has been logged, but that all tests have completed successfully. Recently, I've been erring on the side of caution with hard drives - if an error happened 400+ hours ago, and tests pass now, then I figure it might have been some external issue, but with the error occuring at the same time as the test, I'm a bit leery of telling a customer that they're fine.
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The application just reads whatever the drive says or what it does (during the test). The nature of wonderful computers!
I heard IDE is generally an ugly protocol, maybe it was some weird qwirk. It could be perhaps some qwirk on the cable, drive flaking a bit, maybe the motherboard, etc.
I have seen disks that had SMART errors logged but functioned for many hours (months) later. I would keep it under watch.
On the side, I am still using two disks that failed tests as part of my RAID0 a few months ago. They are still working fine (but I am unable to re-run the tests on them due to technical issues so I am not sure if they would still fail the tests).
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