[smartmontools-support] disambiguation and errata on smartmontools FAQ

[Mike P. <mos...@ya...>]

Bruce 

>From the faq at
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#FAQ 

In the section;
My ATA drive is failing its self-tests, but its SMART
health status is 'PASS'. What's going on?

If the disk were able to read that sector of data,
even once, then the disk firmware would mark the
sector as 'bad' and then allocate a spare sectors to
replace it. 

I think SHOULD read:

If the disk were unable to read that sector of data,
even once, then the disk firmware would mark the
sector as 'bad' and then allocate a spare sector to
replace it. 

Change able to unable and plurality of 3rd occurrence
of sector.

Thanks for the software, support for same, and the
science you do for a 'real' job.



Mike



       
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