What does this smartd error message mean?

[James Olin Oden]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Patrick wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know what this s.m.a.r.t error message from smartd means?
> The disk is a WDC WD1000JB-00CWE0.
>
smart is a mechanism by which hard drives monitor various attributes and 
report if these attributes chande such that they have fallen outside 
a range of thresholds.  The attribute being measured is unimport for the 
most part.  What is important is that when any of these attributes start
to fall outside of the thresholds, then this is an indicator that the 
drive will soon fail.  The proper response in this case is to replace the
drive.  Does anyone disagree with this?