Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

[Les Mikesell]

David G. Mackay wrote:
> I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a hard drive, and ran into errors
> formatting it.  I downloaded and ran the dos version of the Seagate
> tools against the disk, which found all sorts of errors, and claimed
> that it was running at 253 degrees.  This drive has been sitting idle,
> but powered on and mounted in a system running FC6 on a different drive.
> Looking at /var/log/messages, I see no smart warnings until after I
> rebooted into FC6.  Prior to the failure I see messages indicating that
> the drive is in the smartd database, and that it has been added to the
> monitor list.
> 
> Shouldn't there have been some indication of problems prior to the
> failure?


What did smartctl -A say about it?  I'm not sure that the tests that it 
needs
for good diagnostics ever get run automatically.

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   Les Mikesell
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