On 12/19/08 2:51 PM, "Wojciech Puchar"
wrote:
> which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned.
yes. but what do i do with a smart warning? the google paper indicates that
even they haven't figured it out yet, although they express some hope.
"Despite those strong correlations, we Þnd that fai
failures had no warning from smart.
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/
which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned.
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On 12/19/08 12:38 PM, "Kirk Strauser" wrote:
>
> I beg to differ. "smartctl -H /dev/ad8" says that it passes its self-
> assessment and doesn't expect the drive to flat-out die any day soon.
> I'd still like to know if the error count increased, or if it started
> to detect imminent failure.
t
Hi,
> i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with
> important data.
It is if taken seriously. A smartd error was once ignored, the rest
(including data) is history.
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On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:10 AM, James Tanis wrote:
To answer your question, I don't believe smartd is sophisticated
enough to filter out specific errors. It's meant to warn you at the
first sign of drive failure so you will have time to replace the
drive. It doesn't exactly provide a meter of
On 12/19/08 11:46 AM, "Kirk Strauser" wrote:
> I just don't want to hear about them any more. :-)
reconfigure smartd?
i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with
important data.
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On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
by rewriting whole drive you should be able to remove them
I tried running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8 bs=1m" a while back but
I'm still getting them. At this point, I imagine that I really do
have bad sectors. I'm fine with that. I
smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like:
smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors
I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't
particularly care. I'd like to know if the drive's about to roll over and
die, but I rea
I have a 250GB drive that I use exclusively for unimportant data. I
run smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like:
smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors
I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and
don't particularly c
