On 7/16/2007 2:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would advise against disabling smartd in general. I have had good luck with it and it has correctly warned me of failing drives. I have not heard of any cases where it cried wolf incorrectly but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Can you do a badblocks scan or use some other tool to test the drives?
I did have one (only one) case where it cried wolf. In the days of 512M drives, on a month-old drive smart complained. We took the drive out of service but ran read-write tests on it for about two days. Smart stopped complaining after a few power cycles. After running more tests we put the drive back in service, and it worked flawlessly for several years until replaced to increase capacity.
Karl -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
