Re: Re: CMD680, kernel 2.4.21, and heartache (fwd)

Re: Re: CMD680, kernel 2.4.21, and heartache (fwd)

[Bruce Allen]

> Yeah, it says 196, and that's bizarre.  196 whats?  From looking at other
> example output, the '1441854' number is usually the true deg. C of the
> machine.  But I'm reasonably sure that it's not at a million and a half
> centigrade.

You need to use a more recent version of smartctl -- one with better
documentation and clearer output.  Get smartmontools 5.1-18 from
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ and read the documentation. Don't
use the 5.19 release -- it's flawed.

This should answer your questions. If not, post the output from (the
smartmontools 5.1-18 version of) smartctl -a and I'll comment.

[Regarding the temperature, the Drive ID string in your output was:
Device: IC35L120AVV207-0 which is an IBM/Hitachi drive, not a Samsung
drive as you stated in your original post.  If so, the drive stores three
temperatures internally in six bytes.  smartmontools will display all
three temperatures (current, lifetime min and lifetime max).  The outdated
version of smartctl that you are using simply prints the bottom four of
the six bytes -- hence the very large number] .

Cheers,
	Bruce

Re: CMD680, kernel 2.4.21, and heartache (fwd)

[Erik Bourget]

Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu> writes:

>> Yeah, it says 196, and that's bizarre.  196 whats?  From looking at other
>> example output, the '1441854' number is usually the true deg. C of the
>> machine.  But I'm reasonably sure that it's not at a million and a half
>> centigrade.
>
> You need to use a more recent version of smartctl -- one with better
> documentation and clearer output.  Get smartmontools 5.1-18 from
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ and read the documentation. Don't
> use the 5.19 release -- it's flawed.
>
> This should answer your questions. If not, post the output from (the
> smartmontools 5.1-18 version of) smartctl -a and I'll comment.
>
> [Regarding the temperature, the Drive ID string in your output was:
> Device: IC35L120AVV207-0 which is an IBM/Hitachi drive, not a Samsung
> drive as you stated in your original post.  If so, the drive stores three
> temperatures internally in six bytes.  smartmontools will display all
> three temperatures (current, lifetime min and lifetime max).  The outdated
> version of smartctl that you are using simply prints the bottom four of
> the six bytes -- hence the very large number] .

Right you are.  I'm sorry, I thought they were Samsungs at first, saw
otherwise after that post, figured it wasn't a major point of contention.
But, IBM --- doesn't their hard drive division not exist anymore because of
massive failures?

- Erik