On Wednesday 22 June 2005 4:15 pm, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > But does anybody know what all these SMART parameters *mean* ?!? Yes, apparently, it's all written down: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#references > AFAIK, only a handful of parameters ("temperature", "reallocated sectors", > and "start stop count") seem to measure something. All the other > stuff appears to be complete gibberish. Yup, I agree. But the information that isn't useful doesn't negate that which is. And the gibberish may indeed be useful once it is interpreted. > Then for the SMART "status", it is completely useless- I had SMART > complain about perfectly good disks ("this disk will fail soon!!!"- a few > 120GB WDs that sometimes stop seeking, probably through overheating) > and I had completely unusable disks (i.e. develops about 10 unreadable > sectors per day) that SMART was perfectly happy with. This I can't address - I've not had this experience - others can speak up about this. > K.O. (and thanks again for your help on my original problem!) -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx <<plain text preferred>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
