SMART Disk Dying

[Kurt Wall]

It appears that /dev/hdb is going south. The BIOS SMART monitor kicked
on this afternoon telling me that the disk was going to go bad within
24 hours and to get all my data off of it NOW. So, I've done so. More
interesting, after booting into single user mode and while copying data
off the disk, I got some DMA timeouts and other errors, so evidently SMART
is pretty smart. Meanwhile, smartctl had some interesting things to say:

# smartctl -H /dev/hdb 

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
Failed Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   018   155   051    Pre-fail  Offline  FAILING_NOW 4372

# smartctl -l selftest >> /dev/hdb

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: unknown failure    90%       802         0xfffc0000

My question is, can I believe this information?

Kurt
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