Mike Raiford wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I suddenly suspect it's the S.M.A.R.T. offline scan
> 
> S.M.A.R.T. warned me my hard drive was about to fail after it failed. I 
> don't put too much stock in it.

Yeah. I've had it where the machine wouldn't boot because SMART was saying 
the drive was failing, and I had to turn off SMART to run the machine. And 
since it was just essentially a compute-node with nothing on the drive that 
wasn't in the repository, I left it run another 9 months before the drive 
eventually did fail.

Pretty useless, IME, also.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."

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