Re: [smartmontools-support] Problem with new hard disk or smartctl shows wrong values ?

[sundararaj r. <sun...@go...>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Gabriele Pohl <gp...@di...> wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 08:24 PM, upscope wrote:
>> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:10:42 AM sundararaj reel wrote:
>>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>>> Device Model:     ST3000DM001-9YN166
>>> Serial Number:    XXXXXXX
>>> Firmware Version: CC4B
>>> User Capacity:    3.000.592.982.016 bytes
>>> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
>> Note this device is not in the smartctl database. Therefore i do not think the
>> numbers shown are valid. There is a way to request having the drive added to
>> the database. Try googling as its been sveral years since I had one added and
>> the link I have is bad.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/FAQ#MyATAdriveisnotinthesmartctlsmartddatabase
>
> Recently we also added a section concerning this topic
> on smartmontools wiki start page:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki
>
> See section "Contribute to Smartmontools
> -> Device Information"
>

Thanks. I was using an old version of smartmontools (5.38)