Billie Walsh wrote:
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.
On the basis that SMART was wrong *once*, are you willing to bet YOUR DATA that his old drive has NOT run out of internal spare sectors? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org