Re: [smartmontools-support]Problems with Samsung disk

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

> >Do both -- they are slighly different.  The -o on does automatic data
> >collection.  The -S cron Directive read scans the disk.
> I don't get the difference... I read all the infos on the website but some I 
> don't understand.

Read the smartctl man page, online, after the '-o' and '-t' options.  Be
sure to read the current man page, not an older version.


> Another question ; what should I think of this:
> /dev/hdc :
>    3 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 
> 53 to 54
>    4 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 
> 54 to 53
>    4 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 
> 54 to 55
>    4 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 
> 55 to 54
>    3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 
> 53 to 54
>    4 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 
> 54 to 53
>    4 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 
> 54 to 55
>    4 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 
> 55 to 54
> (taken from my logs)
> 
> I don't know how to react when reading that...

Not a problem.  Read the smartctl man page under the '-A' option.

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Cheers,
	Bruce