[CentOS] SAS Hard Disk 15K rpm on CentOS 5.8

[John Doe]

From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>

> I get these below information. Please help me understand about "SMART
> Health Status: FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED: ascq=0x5
> [asc=5d, ascq=5]" and what does that error mean.

The way I understand it:
- Disks have errors.
- After a defined number of errors, the disk is declared as having a "predictive failure".
Not sure if it is only the spare space getting almost fully used, or if it is more statistical...

JD