Re: Hi is this critical??

[Nuitari]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 [e-mail] wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 [e-mail] 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.

It never advised me before seeing problems in the kernel (I had about 5 
drives dying running Linux machines).

It should be trivial to just grep the kernel log for the error and mail it 
to some address. 

Another way to prove a dead drive is (after a backup) to drop it some 
until it made a nice broken drive sound (a very high pitch shriek) and 
bring it to the store that sold it to you (ideally a small one as they are 
less technically challenged then big chains).