[smartmontools-support] Smart and the -i flag?

[Joan <as...@gm...>]

Good morning, I'm trying to ignore an attribute that is triggering errors
in a sata disc (precisely a Transcend TS8GHSD310 that issues an error for
attribute 167)

On the smartd.conf manual I can read
       -i ID  [ATA only] Ignore device  Attribute  number  ID  when
 checking  for  failure  of  Usage
              Attributes.   ID  must  be a decimal integer in the range
from 1 to 255.  This Directive
              modifies the behavior of the ´-f´ Directive and has no effect
without it.

              This is useful, for example, if you have a very old disk and
don´t want to keep  getting
              messages  about  the  hours-on-lifetime  Attribute  (usually
Attribute 9) failing.  This
              Directive may appear multiple times for a single device, if
you want to ignore  multiple
              Attributes.

But according to the init script -i seems to be used for interval checking
    #/etc/init.d/smartd
    if test -n "$SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL" -a "$SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL" != 1800
; then
       smartd_opts=" -i $SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL"
    fi

I am using smartd 5.41+svn3365-1 from debian squeeze, but the same manual
is active for 6.2+svn3841-1.2 (on debian testing)
So my question is, what is the proper way to avoid triggering error for a
faulty attribute?

Joan