Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk
> > frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to work.
>
> I thought modern disks could be instructed to do "offline scanning",
> using any idle time available.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] video]# smartctl -a /dev/hda
> ...
> General SMART Values:
> Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
> was completed without error.
> Auto Offline Data Collection:
> Enabled.
For my Maxtor drives, I had to manually rewrite some bad blocks after
about a year in use. There have been unrecoverable read errors that did
completely go away after writing zeroes to the related blocks.
After I did completely write all sectors of a new disk in install position
and at operating temperature, I found that the disks did not fail after a year
anymore.
Jörg
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