From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ata drive capabilities
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:31:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10712252231u167ae5c2k616534728b97e338@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bd860fd77b8e6e4bf4d87d7ba44e5ed@quanstro.net>
On Dec 25, 2007 6:59 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>(we have a drive
> in the lab that smart declares will fail any minute now. it's been
> this way for 2 years.)
>From everything I've seen, SMART has zero correlation with real
hardware issues -- confirmed by a discussion with someone at a big
search company. SMART is dumb.
> this can be a big problem if you have a
> machine with raid that won't boot due to a drive failure.
> (why have a raid if one failure means an unbootable machine?)
it makes great ad copy.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-25 21:40 Christian Kellermann
2007-12-25 21:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-25 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 6:31 ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-12-26 13:10 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 19:52 ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 20:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-12-27 18:12 ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 23:58 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-12-27 2:34 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 7:44 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 13:18 ` roger peppe
2007-12-26 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 16:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 18:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-27 6:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27 7:28 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-27 9:01 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27 15:15 ` Brantley Coile
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