On 10/8/2013 2:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > I don't know much about SMART, but I get the impression that the > drives decide to fail themselves when some metric goes anomalous, > rather than continue running and potentially cause data corruption. > Therefore there's likely to be a large number of drives that can be > tweaked to go back into production after they have 'failed' the metrics in SMART are to tell the OS when failure is imminent. for various complex reasons they aren't as effective at this as one would like. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast