On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 13:28:01 -0500, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The big issue is that most of the smart implementations don't scan the disk > for bad blocks, and in my experience several years ago with a 1000+ disks > in services was that the #1 failure was bad blocks, and smart did little to > catch that. The #2 failure was failure to spin up at all, but this > seemed to be confined to certain batches. Isn't that what the long surface scan test is supposed to do?
