Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christian Franke Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.hdd Subject: Re: "Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours."? Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:54:39 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4EB6C9DF.6010607@t-online.de> References: <9hnbdlFj3jU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1320602080 18213 eJwFwQERADEIAzBLsNLykwPs8C/hE0KuyRAVXG57PqDPBgcuKU55AWb1TV1M50WwDe+tzfwNPBDh (6 Nov 2011 17:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:54:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 X-User-ID: eJwNyskBwCAIBMCWQGFdy0GO/ktI5j2+ochjcJiPz61A6bQEonHSGOIhrP/cN1LXdFGYXlhGy8gYWvco3hZ+apcV9A== In-Reply-To: <9hnbdlFj3jU1@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:lonk5t4UrWtsyXUAbKDqKSzWjSA= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQkBACAIA8BKThhPHFHoH8E7isGuq9GUwznqE++8wpVKKAmsoK2dE930Ii8lxrR2CsqneVtNH3w3n08Cso54p9M+vqIZGg== Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.hardware:766 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:1879 Arno wrote: > In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant<...> wrote: > ... > >> Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours. > >> For details see host's SYSLOG. > >> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. >> Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists. > You can add '-i 9' to the smartd.conf entry for this device to suppress future warning mails. Smartd reported the failed attribute because VALUE <= THRESH: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME ... VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE ... WHEN_FAILED RAW... ... .9 Power_On_Hours ... 001 001 001 Old_age FAILING_NOW 64880 > Don't worry. This means the drive manufacturer thinks it is about > time that you buy a new one, but otherwise the drive is fine. > > This is a pure uptime count that expires when a pre-set > usage time is reached. > Yes. Other attributes look good, even after 64880 hours (7+ years) uptime :-) Many recent drives return threshold 0 for Power_On_Hours and all other usage ("Old_age") attributes which means that these would never "fail". Christian