On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:34:39AM +0000, Anthony wrote: > Would I be right in thinking that this kind of smart failure could not > be triggered by the controller, and rather it's a drive fault, because > the tests are run wholly within the drive itself and all that goes > between drive and computer is the request to start the test, and the > test results?
yep, the smart tests are run on the drive itself. hope you've got a backup. > My thoughts are that besides the bitching of the Marvell virtual ATA > device (which perhaps was passing stuff through to the 1TB device), > all the errors could be attributed to the now failed drive? possibly. but IIRC you said it was whinging about the DVD drive for ages too. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> BOFH excuse #447: According to Microsoft, it's by design _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
