On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:11 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > I would say that the hard disk did not have time to shout help to the > system bios. It looks like it was the drive's electronics that failed, so yes, it'd be pretty sudden. > No Help, I am sick and dying, Make a backup of me before I go.. Fortunately, it was backed up. > On a more serious note, is there a way to fake a hard disk failure > that smartd code would react to? You could take a virtualized disk drive/controller and program just about anything that you wanted into it. Dave
