On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs:
Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Offline uncorrectable sectors_ and something like that with smartctl -a 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0033 001 001 010 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 785 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0031 001 001 010 Pre-fail Offline FAILING_NOW 785 btw, the harddisk is now 'failing' for almost two years. Playing around with suspend to disk killed the sectors.... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
