On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 07:49:59 -0600, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doing a cat of the raw device to /dev/null once in a while will > give smartd a chance to report errors. The drive should even > internally remap a certain number of 'soft' errors transparently > if it is able to recover the data with retries but again it > will only do that if you access the bad spot. You should be using long self tests to do surface scans of the disk.
