[smartmontools-support] smartctl tool

[Kettunen, S. (N. - FI/Espoo) <sul...@ns...>]

Hi,
I am using smartctl tool for HD disks checking and wondering LifeTime column where value is hours.

Is that testing time as seconds and has it max value 9999 ?

Br Sulo Kettunen


# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [mips64-wrs-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: FUJITSU  MBD2147RC        Version: 4701
Serial number: D0B2PB4009UW
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS
Local Time is: Thu Apr 18 13:30:43 2013 EEST
Device supports SMART and is Disabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     37 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C
Manufactured in week 15 of year 2011
Recommended maximum start stop count:  50000 times
Current start stop count:      23 times
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
             Errors Corrected by                    Total    Correction        Gigabytes     Total
                  ECC                  rereads/      errors      algorithm        processed      uncorrected
             fast | delayed      rewrites    corrected   invocations     [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0             0                 0               0                 0          59086.344              0
write:         0             0                 0               0                 0          3399.167                0

Non-medium error count:       19

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test                     Status                        segment   LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
        Description                                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background long   Self test in progress ...   -            NOW                          -  [-      -         -]
# 2  Background long   Completed                      -            8443                          -  [-      -         -]
# 3  Background long   Completed                      -            8373                          -  [-      -         -]
# 4  Background long   Completed                      -            8105                          -  [-      -         -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 1589 seconds [26.5 minutes]