also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1656 +0200]: > > Yes, it will. Obviously, use of a drive will more likely cause > > errors, but as long as SMART does not report any, the drive is ready > > to go. Also, SMART can run low-level tests itself. > > Does this mean that if a block hasn't been accessed in a while (months, > years) and a bit degrades so that the data on that block is wrong > (cosmic rays, age, whatever), when read ECC on the drive will detect the > error, send out correct data, rewrite the block and verify that it wrote > OK (that the bit isn't permantly dead) and if it didn't will then remap > the block?
I don't know the answer to this; I am not a hardware guy. > Then do the SMART low-level tests do the same to every block > without the OS having to read every block? As far as I understand, they do. The smartmontools mailing list will be a better source of information for you. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems an egg has the shortest sex-life of all: if gets laid once; it gets eaten once. it also has to come in a box with 11 others, and the only person who will sit on its face is its mother.
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