Re: [smartmontools-support]analysis of output for maxtor 120 gb

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

> Quoting Bruce Allen <ba...@gr...>:
> > Could you please send the complete smartctl -a output for the drive? 
> > The man page for smartctl has some documentation for the error log. 
> > You'll want to look at a recent version (eg release 5.26 or a CVS
> > snapshot).
> 
> Log is attached.  I'm running 5.26 on Gentoo.

Not according to the output you sent:
smartctl version 5.25 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen

Version 5.25 was an experimental release -- I suggest you use 5.26.

> Also, man pages seem to have weird wrap-around issue ... it's like
> some lines didn't get truncated properly.

If this is not fixed in 5.26, could you please file a bug report with
Gentoo?  I don't know what they've done with the man pages.

  Program is wonderful otherwise!  ;-)  Thanks for
> the help.

I don't see anything odd in the output -- the drive looks fine. This
warning: Warning: ATA error count 9 inconsistent with error log pointer 5
is just Maxtor's firmware failing to comply with the ATA specs.  It's
harmless.  By the way, you need the -v 9,minutes option.

Bruce