Arno Wagner wrote in news:66prs2F2j860cU1@mid.individual.net
> Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
> > On 17 Apr 2008 13:22:52 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger
> > to keyboard and composed:
> [...]

[awful big snip]

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> Quite frankly this shows that the authors have not a lot of
> experience with SMART data.

> Seek errors are due to modern drives starting reading before the
> heads have settled.

Babblebot, clueless as always.

A seek error is a failure to find the addressed track.
The drive has a full rev. to determine that it is on the correct track.
It won't start to read user data until it has determined that it is
on the right track and in the right rotational position.
Also, there is no such time that the drive is *not* reading as it is
reading the servo data all the time. If the drive determines that
it is on the correct track then obviously the heads have settled.

> This usually works, but when it does not work it becomes a seek error.

Nope, it becomes a read error.

> Some manufacuters list these in the SMART data, other do not.

A seek error is a seek error, and that's that.

> The number seen does not mean much, which is well known to people
> that work a lot with SMART data.

Right, so obviously this should not be mentioned as an observation.
Babblebot, S.M.A.R.T. as ever.

>
> Arno