Re: [smartmontools-support]link to a broken file

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

Hi Gabriele,

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Gabriele Pohl wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> 
> first I want to thank for your rich documentation on smartmontools!

You're welcome.  Thanks for reading it!

> second I want to give a notice about the following: The Document
> "Revision 1.4 of SFF-8055i "S.M.A.R.T. Applications Guide for the ATA
> and SCSI Interfaces" which one can download from the link
> ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF is broken.

I just used a link validator to check all the links in the document.  
They are all OK. I was able to get
ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF:

[ballen@lap ballen]$ wget
ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF > 8055.pdf
--10:39:04--  ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF
           => `8055.PDF.1'
Resolving ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl... done.
Connecting to ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl[153.19.208.2]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/macro/S.M.A.R.T. ... done.
==> PORT ... done.    ==> RETR 8055.PDF ... done.
Length: 524,827 (unauthoritative)
 
100%[===============================================================================>]
524,827       14.41K/s    ETA 00:00
 
10:39:42 (14.41 KB/s) - `8055.PDF.1' saved [524827]


Note that this is a rather slow server (12kB/sec, average) so be patient!

> third I have a question: I would like to interprete the attribute report
> for my defect disc - Device Model:  Maxtor 34098H4
> Although you write in the article at the Linux Journal, that all "the 
> names/meanings of Attributes and the interpretation are vendor specific"
> I hope that there is some documentation about general meanings,
> which possibly may differ for some vendors, but help me getting
> an idea for the thing, that is spoken about.
> 
> Can you give some links to *background information*
> that help me understand the attributes?

I'm afraid that other than the pointers in the REFERENCES section I don't
know where various Attributes are monitored.  But I saw that Mario already
answered your question about reallocated sector count.

> In my case, the error is:
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   001   001   063    Pre-fail  Always   
> FAILING_NOW 637
> 
> I've got my data already copied to a new disc

VERY wise!

> but I am curious to learn what has happened in this case.

If the disk is still under warranty, Maxtor should replace it with no
difficulty.

> Thanks for your support!

You're welcome!

Bruce