From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDC713877A for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B02C4E0D04; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6279EE0B2D for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CAEBC24313 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:21:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:21:04 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contradictionary behaviour of SMART on hds ?!? Message-ID: <20140727222104.42119108@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53D550F7.2070200@gmail.com> References: <20140727101247.GA3817@solfire> <20140727112736.54eb3995@digimed.co.uk> <20140727104115.GB3817@solfire> <20140727195745.6a58e11d@digimed.co.uk> <53D550F7.2070200@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/40kfhX_=PnxUiKQA+2_kI+w"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e25afa69-7907-4558-931e-df8e9f70e2a4 X-Archives-Hash: d93110e2e6fc312f886ebfe12e60754d --Sig_/40kfhX_=PnxUiKQA+2_kI+w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:20:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > Question. Does that mean that the heads can't move past that point? If > yes, does that mean the OP can't get any data that is further out than > that point? I'm asking hoping I will learn something. I have taken > drives apart so I know how the arm moves the heads across the platter.=20 > If I get what you are saying, it's like the heads get to a certain > point, about 10%, and then stop. I don't think so, as I've seen this sort of thing on a drive but still been able to access ~all my data. It seems that the SMART tests are a little stupid in this respect and give up when they decide a drive is broken, as opposed to failing. --=20 Neil Bothwick Irritable? Who the bloody hell are you calling irritable? --Sig_/40kfhX_=PnxUiKQA+2_kI+w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPVbUUACgkQum4al0N1GQMp/ACfZb2p9S7LnytnZ0lZLXDXEEjR wgkAn05hkac97bRKzumGkXoCFLw9fSXL =7jYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/40kfhX_=PnxUiKQA+2_kI+w--