Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

[Roger Heflin]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 13:28:01 -0500,
>   Roger Heflin <rogerheflin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The big issue is that most of the smart implementations don't scan the disk 
>> for bad blocks, and in my experience several years ago with a 1000+ disks 
>> in services was that the #1 failure was bad blocks, and smart did little to 
>> catch that.    The #2 failure was failure to spin up at all, but this 
>> seemed to be confined to certain batches.
> 
> Isn't that what the long surface scan test is supposed to do?
> 

Probably.   I started using dd test before disks and Linux and other oses 
supported smart.   It works on any disk (or array) whether smart works or not.

                        Roger