-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2017-11-06 at 14:57 -0000, Wols Lists wrote:
On 06/11/17 14:36, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Just a thought, your device doesn't use smart on the disk but smart settings stay across resets and power cycles. Maybe if you enable smart via smartctl the disk might take better care of itself.
No, that is not so. SMART runs directly on the hard disk, not on the computer. It does not depend at all on the computer.
The computer job is solely to read the collected data and display it. A daemon may collect that data and put a big warning to the administrator.
Actually, in my experience (Seagate Barracuda), SMART settings do NOT survive a power cycle :-(
I think the hard drive logs and stores errors, which smartctl will display, but certainly on the Seagate anything that requires active intervention by the drive is disabled by default on power-up and there is no way (that I know of) to change that.
If you read the smartctl manual you see some settings that survive and some that don't. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloAejQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UPRgCfSnSi+r0mapQnCxNIkO3QMMRQ eKgAoJSBuAC/aoCyXAsNnyiI1dTKnroU =kfG9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org