On 11/07/2007 James Knott wrote: > One thing to bear in mind, is that drives have spare sectors, which get > used as others fail. The warning is to tell you that the drive is well > on it's way to failing and should be replaced ASAP. You were lucky that > it didn't fail sooner. What you did, is comparable to disabling the > engine light on a car, rather than fixing what's causing it to turn on.
There was nothing wrong with the drive. There was something in SMART that was wrong. I've seen SMART say that a brand new drive is failing. SMART is nothing like the engine light on a car. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
