On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 08:30:51PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > FWIW, when I first saw this on a drive, NetBSD was able to recover and > let me back-up the data (indeed very first thing to do). After, the > SMART status was almost useless, since the faults reappeared until the > disk finally failed (with unability to recover). And the SMART status > was up-to-date only when it finally failed---that is: too late.
That reminds me of a mail smartd (from smartmontools) tried to send me once about a failing disk on my mail server - it arrived a few minutes after deploying the replacement disk. Martin
