Disk Death

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:00:33PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> >
> > [apparent disk death]
> 
> May I suggest that you use the resurrected drive as a backup only?  I'd be very
> worried that it was going to die again, and if you're going to use it
> at all, I would
> think recovering from a backup failure is easier than losing a day's work.

Right. I have low confidence in the drive at this point. It's an older
drive anyway. If I understand the SMART output, it's getting long in the
tooth:

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6947         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6923         -

Kurt
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	When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the
	most inconvenient possible time.