[OT] Smartd: Worth the effort

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Aug 30 01:21:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:59, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 15:58, Angela Kahealani wrote:
> 
> > On a more modern drive we get things like this:
> > 
> > /dev/hde :
> >    1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
> > from 59 to 60  
> >    1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
> > from 59 to 61  
> 
> >    1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
> > from 62 to 61  
> >    1 Time(s): is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.  
> >    1 Time(s): not found in smartd database.  
> >    1 Time(s): opened  
> 
>     Ah, yes- so they DID get around to putting a meaning with the
> bytes.  When I last remembered hearing something about it, it was much
> more terse and less helpful.
> 
>     And sure; if I had a newer drive (and I hope to, in a couple of
> days) surely it'll have more to say about it, aye?  :)
> 
>     Thanks for the heads-up!

And yes, the newer drives have a much smarter SMART capability than the
ones from as little as 3 years ago had.

Newer drives give more information.





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