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
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