Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CMD680, kernel 2.4.21, and heartache (fwd) | From | Erik Bourget <> | Date | Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:55:28 -0400 |
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Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu> writes:
>> Yeah, it says 196, and that's bizarre. 196 whats? From looking at other >> example output, the '1441854' number is usually the true deg. C of the >> machine. But I'm reasonably sure that it's not at a million and a half >> centigrade. > > You need to use a more recent version of smartctl -- one with better > documentation and clearer output. Get smartmontools 5.1-18 from > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ and read the documentation. Don't > use the 5.19 release -- it's flawed. > > This should answer your questions. If not, post the output from (the > smartmontools 5.1-18 version of) smartctl -a and I'll comment. > > [Regarding the temperature, the Drive ID string in your output was: > Device: IC35L120AVV207-0 which is an IBM/Hitachi drive, not a Samsung > drive as you stated in your original post. If so, the drive stores three > temperatures internally in six bytes. smartmontools will display all > three temperatures (current, lifetime min and lifetime max). The outdated > version of smartctl that you are using simply prints the bottom four of > the six bytes -- hence the very large number] .
Right you are. I'm sorry, I thought they were Samsungs at first, saw otherwise after that post, figured it wasn't a major point of contention. But, IBM --- doesn't their hard drive division not exist anymore because of massive failures?
- Erik
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