From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2005-11-29 23:31:45
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> Before I do that, can you run the CVS version with > > -P showall > > and see if it lists anything for the MAXTOR ATLAS10K5_147SCA > (or something similar)? If it is a glitch in the MAXTOR firmware > then presumably it would be taken care of in the CVS version > by an entry in the database to match that drive. MAXTOR > seems not to have any firmware upgrades listed for this model. No, nothing in the smartmontools preset would 'take care' of a firmware glitch. In fact these presets are not even used by the SCSI code. > I just noticed that it also doesn't show the year of manufacture, that's > blank. It does show the week as 05, which is probably actually the year > it was made and not the week it was made. Since that is the field > immediately preceding the count and recommended fields I'm guessing that > everything is shifted over by a byte or two. Is there some sort of > SMART dump tool that I can use to get the drive to emit the relevant > fields so that we can debug this? David, start by adding -r ioctl,3 to the command line. Doug, can something in SCSI utils be used for this? Cheers, Bruce |