On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:34:39AM +0000, Anthony wrote:
Would I be right in thinking that this kind of smart failure could not be triggered by the controller, and rather it's a drive fault, because the tests are run wholly within the drive itself and all that goes between drive and computer is the request to start the test, and the test results?
yep, the smart tests are run on the drive itself. hope you've got a backup.
My thoughts are that besides the bitching of the Marvell virtual ATA device (which perhaps was passing stuff through to the 1TB device), all the errors could be attributed to the now failed drive?
possibly. but IIRC you said it was whinging about the DVD drive for ages too. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #447: According to Microsoft, it's by design