Re: Hi is this critical??

venom@sns.it
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:46:59 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

>
> S.M.A.R.T. is useful to prove that a drive is dying, but it is not useful to prove that it is not.

Yes, of course, and this was exaclty what was asked here in the mail
from xavier that started this thread. The point is if S.M.A.R.T will
advice before you see seek errors messages from the kernel or not.

Luigi

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