| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: S.M.A.R.T. hard drives WAS: SCSI vs. IDE performance test |
| Date: | 2003-11-28 21:45:52 |
| Message-ID: | 200311282145.hASLjqc14536@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> > Actually, drives have S.M.A.R.T for reporting these kind of issues. The idea
> > being that a counter decrements every time a block is remapped. When it
> > reaches a declared threshold the drive declares an error and if it's in
> > warranty that's enough to convince the manufacturer to send you a new disk.
> >
> > Not that many people use this feature, but it is there.
>
> I used smartsuite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/) to view
> the status of the drives, but the relocated sector count appears only
> available on ide drives. Does anyone know if that is the nature of scsi
> drives or is it just a limitation of that tool?
Do SCSI drives even do relocation? I had a Seagate SCSI drive that
would beep every time I tried to access a bad block, basically telling
me to replace the drive.
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