On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 at 22:16, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just took delivery of two WDC WD4005FFBX-68CAUN0 hard drives, to > replace two failing hard drives. I have put one of the new ones into > service. Everything looks nominal, except that smartctl reports: > > Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART > checksum. > > Is there any way to tell the drive to recalculate the checksum? I don't > see anything in the smartctl man page. Hi, internet search on the error message does find discussion of this, including: https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/347 https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1884 >From what I read of those and others, I get the impression that: - It's nothing to worry about - Maybe it will go away after a 'smartctl -t short <device>', I would try that
