Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2995 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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?



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