On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12, G T Smith wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > It's only 86 lines, but it confuses me, too, at this point. > > > > I've attached the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sda". If you or > > anybody can tell me something meaningful, feel free. > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > What I am seeing here would not worry me greatly, there are a couple > of things that puzzle me though... But I would check whether WD have > any technical documents on this unit.
OK. I'll see what I can find. By the way, this is the drive: <http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=189> > I assume you have smartd setup to do regular tests on the drive and > forward mail as well as log results... I have noticed that you will > get transient reports from time to time, but most are indicators are > notifying of temp changes and the like. Yes. There seems to be some other snafu that's causing the mail delivery to sometimes fail (according to other diagnostics in /var/log/messages), but something's getting through, 'cause I get alerts in KDE. In fact, that's what first brought it to my attention. Since then, I've been monitoring the related entries in /var/log/messages. > Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for > some time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, > unfortunately Robert did not give a link for the paper he referred > to. I would be interested to have a look at it ... Yes, Robert, if you're still reading this thread, if you could point us to that paper, we'd appreciate it. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
