On Sul, 2006-02-26 at 17:13 +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > The *only* test that matters is to enable S.M.A.R.T., > > and read out the error logs from it. SMART is unreliable for many cases > I have seen a set of drives that has reported UncorrectableErrors > and : > * Shows the Uncorrectable error in the SMART log > * Passes a full SMART test > * Shows no remapped sectors > * Passes the vendors drive test > * Now fully passes a dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/null with no errors. The very early SATA code didnt decode the errors from the drive fully so could produce bogus reports. The current code decodes it and also displays the ATA level diagnostics so should be reliable. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
