bad sector in gmirror HDD

Alex Samorukov ml at os2.kiev.ua
Sat Aug 20 18:43:24 UTC 2011


> "The SMART tests you did didn't really amount to anything; no surprise.
> short and long tests usually do not test the surface of the disk.  There
> are some drives which do it on a long test, but as I said before,
> everything varies from drive to drive."
>
It is not correct statement, sorry. Long test trying to read all the 
data from surface (and doing some other things).

// one of the smartmontools developers and sysutils/smartmontools 
maintainer.




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