[...] >First of all: The disk is *not* dying. "SMART" won't reveal anything. >The behaviour is perfectly normal for IBM-DJNA-3* type disks. > >When those disks are used in continuous operation (24/7), they >will go into automatic maintenance mode after 6 days. This is >kind of a short self-test and recalibration to ensure reliable >continous operation. It will be repeated after another 6 days >ad infinitum. >
It's been over 3.5 years since my original post -- imagine my surprise! The drive's still running (24/7) and still reporting the same retries. Because of the pattern of the retries, I never really thought that the drive was bad. But, until now, I never knew why it was happening. Thanks *very* much for the info! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
