Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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?
Probably. I started using dd test before disks and Linux and other oses
supported smart. It works on any disk (or array) whether smart works or not.
Roger
