-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2013-08-17 at 15:19 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
Its quite possible that smartctl might not be accurate on an old drive like that. (I would have opted for buying a newer controller, unless its a laptop).
It is a laptop, or I would have thought of that (I hope), seeing how difficult it is to obtain ATA drives.
Perhaps older models report values from the controller and not the disk itself, but also it is common for there to be some discrepancy in the UNITS used for storage
See: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/FAQ#smartctlreportstheag...
smartctl reports the age as thousands of hours for my Maxtor/Hitachi/Fujitsu disk , yet it is only a few days old
On recent disks, Maxtor has started to use Attribute 9 to store the power-on disk lifetime in minutes rather than hours. In this case, use the: '-v 9,minutes' option to correctly display hours and minutes.
Some models of Fujitsu disks use Attribute 9 to store the power-on disk lifetime in seconds. In that case, use the: '-v 9,seconds' option to correctly display hours, minutes and seconds.
AmonLanc:~ # smartctl -v 9,minutes -A /dev/sda | grep Power_On 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0012 056 056 000 Old_age Always - 323h+45m AmonLanc:~ # smartctl -v 9,seconds -A /dev/sda | grep Power_On 9 Power_On_Seconds 0x0012 056 056 000 Old_age Always - 5h+23m+45s AmonLanc:~ # Hum... that could be right, seconds :-? Five hours sounds correct. But other values are also wrong: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 10256 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 455 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 10908 SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 19424 - Weird. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIQAk4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UsYACdEyznpKmvvYCoiKxkS5k0ojWB qbwAn1BnlqvrhdMVhfDx3WHQDLpqSfJy =BXha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org