On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:13:18AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > In contrast to the doomsayers I am not convinced that this single item > is a great predictor of hard drive failure. It is just one metric of
FWIW, mine shows: $ smartctl -A /dev/hda|\ $ egrep 'Start_Stop_Count|Load_Cycle_Count|Power_Cycle_Count'|tr -s ' ' 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69538 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 685 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812616 # smartctl -H /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 050 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 56725 222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 022 022 050 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 31454 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812632 count already increased ;) it's an Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2017GAP Firmware Revision: A5.04 H on a BIOS Information Block Vendor ACER Version V3.0 R01-A05-EN Release 12/15/99 with uptimes of months (always on, till it crashes/hangs ;) ) since - hm - 2002. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
