On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 12:32, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:46:14 +0000 David <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I found them reassuring, because Christian Franke is the primary > > developer of smartmontools [1], and in the first bug above he wrote, > > 11 years ago: "This is a harmless drive firmware bug which could be > > safely ignored." > > > > and in the second bug above he wrote, 11 months ago: > > "[it] is usually harmless. It does not affect any user data." > > I agree that the problem does not affect any user data. However, it > reduces the reliability of the SMART data that the checksum covers, and > that is what I find disconcerting. I agree that it is strange that the checksum is still incorrect after running a SMART test. I was expecting doing that would fix the issue. Sorry, I am out of ideas now.
