On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Peter Kieser <peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 3/26/2010 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Peter Kieser<peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> <SNIP> >>> >>>> >>>> <SNIP> >>>> >>> >>> This seems to be a windows program? I don't see a Linux version in >>> Gentoo portage. >>> >>> I could run Windows once to set it if the settings are then >>> maintained, or do you have a Linux solution? >>> >>> - Mark >>> >> >> It's a proprietary DOS application written by WDC that changes the settings >> on the hard drives firmware. The changes are permanent. You can boot off a >> USB key or floppy with DOS on it to run the application. >> >> -Peter > > OK, so possibly FreeDOS will work? > > Thanks, > Mark > Here's some data from a WD10EARS. How do I read the LCC_COUNT? SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 129 128 021 Pre-fail Always - 6525 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 18 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 5 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 191 191 000 Old_age Always - 27557 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 116 000 Old_age Always - 26 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Is it currently at 191 with a fail level of 27557? This drive is in a desktop machine - non-RAID - that's pretty much always turned on and is maybe 4-6 weeks old at this point. Thanks, Mark -- 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