From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262098AbTJDO4c (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262152AbTJDO4c (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:56:32 -0400 Received: from mail.midmaine.com ([66.252.32.202]:28345 "HELO mail.midmaine.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262098AbTJDO4b (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:56:31 -0400 To: Bruce Allen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CMD680, kernel 2.4.21, and heartache (fwd) X-Eric-Conspiracy: There Is No Conspiracy References: From: Erik Bourget Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:55:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Bruce Allen's message of "Sat, 4 Oct 2003 08:06:32 -0500 (CDT)") Message-ID: <87he2paw7z.fsf@loki.odinnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bruce Allen 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 The outdated 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