2 May
2013
2 May
'13
4:13 a.m.
James Harper <james.harper(a)bendigoit.com.au>
writes:
It's frustrating because a simple "if hard
read errors > 0 || failed
self tests > 0 then drive = not okay" would have meant I could just
read the SMART health indicator and eject the drive from the array (or
whatever it belonged to).
IIRC from heterogeneous disks in an array I had once, I was getting 10*
the number of errors on one pair of disks from the other pair. It
turned out that seagate was reporting uncorrectable errors and WD was
reporting all errors -- the seagate had an extra field where it reported
the raw error rate.
If you are gonna script a "not okay" heuristic, be careful not to
overgeneralize from one vendor to the next.