WD's hidden SMART attributes

Franc Zabkar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
WD's drives record more SMART attributes than they report. Setting bit #7 
of the flag byte appears to denote that an attribute is hidden from the user.

Extracting SMART data from WD MODs 20 - 26:
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=968#p4241

SMART data are recorded in firmware modules 20 - 26 in the reserved System 
Area on the platters.

Resource dumps for various models are available here:
http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-3000-UDMA%20Support/

-Franc Zabkar


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