Re: ide-smart

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:08:25 +0200 (MET DST)


> Some time ago, someone posted a program to this list wich printed stuff
> about /proc/ide/hd?/smart_*. below is the output from one of my drives
> (the other one doesnt work). Could someone please explane what this stuff

Only the vendor of the hard drive will be able to tell you (and probabily
won't) since the information is vendor specific, and who knows, maybe even
model specific.

> means? Especially the line wich says failed. Does it mean the drive is
> going to fail?

> Id= 7, Status=11 {PreFailture , OnLine }, Value= 30, Threshold= 30, Failed

I returned one of my drives tbecause a failed prefailure test. Hm, I bet
yours is a seagate ;)

-- 
____/|  Ragnar Hojland  (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)      Fingerprint  94C4B
\ o.O|                                                   2F0D27DE025BE2302C
 =(_)=  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for      104B78C56 B72F0822
   U     chaos and madness await thee at its end."       hkp://keys.pgp.com






-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/