7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
22:53
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org