Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

[David G. Mackay]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:35:49 -0500
> > "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Shouldn't there have been some indication of problems prior to the
> >> failure?
> I suppose it depends on how fast the drive goes from "working" to "not 
> working."

That's the problem.  I don't know how long it took.  I suppose that all
of this could have happened at once without prior warning, but I doubt
it.

Dave