On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 11:35:08AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400
Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead
disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond.
Not quite. The electronics may respond even if the head-disk assembly
(HDA) is broken. It probably won't give a complete or coherent report,
but it could report.
Maybe yes, maybe no. In some cases a disk might be mostly dead but
partially responsive, but as a generalization you can't expect that a
dead disk will do anything at all. More specifically in this case we're
asking an array controller to pass information to a drive it has marked
as offline, which may not happen regardless of what the drive might or
might not do on its own.
