Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:38:29 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about? Message-ID: <654A1341-DB2B-4370-81BD-C910E8E14031@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <494BD585.9000405@mdchs.org> References: <C3FFB6B1-BC2E-4A02-B960-219668825E24@strauser.com> <20081219170212.A2189@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <907A7FC9-2B3C-4AFC-9622-47AAAA34FC7C@strauser.com> <494BD585.9000405@mdchs.org>
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On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:10 AM, James Tanis wrote: > To answer your question, I don't believe smartd is sophisticated > enough to filter out specific errors. It's meant to warn you at the > first sign of drive failure so you will have time to replace the > drive. It doesn't exactly provide a meter of how imminent drive > failure is. If your going to start ignoring it's advice it isn't > going to be very useful to you at all. I beg to differ. "smartctl -H /dev/ad8" says that it passes its self- assessment and doesn't expect the drive to flat-out die any day soon. I'd still like to know if the error count increased, or if it started to detect imminent failure. -- Kirk Strauser
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