Re: S.M.A.R.T. hard drives WAS: SCSI vs. IDE performance test

Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> > Actually, drives have S.M.A.R.T for reporting these kind of issues. The idea
> > being that a counter decrements every time a block is remapped. When it
> > reaches a declared threshold the drive declares an error and if it's in
> > warranty that's enough to convince the manufacturer to send you a new disk.
> > 
> > Not that many people use this feature, but it is there.
> 
> I used smartsuite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/) to view 
> the status of the drives, but the relocated sector count appears only 
> available on ide drives.  Does anyone know if that is the nature of scsi 
> drives or is it just a limitation of that tool?

Do SCSI drives even do relocation?  I had a Seagate SCSI drive that
would beep every time I tried to access a bad block, basically telling
me to replace the drive.

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