Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?
David G. Mackay
mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Tue Apr 1 12:53:36 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:11 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> I would say that the hard disk did not have time to shout help to the
> system bios.
It looks like it was the drive's electronics that failed, so yes, it'd
be pretty sudden.
> No Help, I am sick and dying, Make a backup of me before I go..
Fortunately, it was backed up.
> On a more serious note, is there a way to fake a hard disk failure
> that smartd code would react to?
You could take a virtualized disk drive/controller and program just
about anything that you wanted into it.
Dave
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