Re: Odd output from MacBook Air SSD

Matthew Butch wrote:
> Here is an odd one. Check out the attached output from smartctl. The Air is reporting a hose of FAILING_NOW errors, but the drive is brand new. Looks like its because the VALUE is less than the THRESH. Not sure if this is a parsing bug or what.

The drive actually returns VALUE=0 in its SMART DATA block. Firmware bug?

> ...
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     JMicron based SSDs
> Device Model:     APPLE SSD TS0256F

The Model Family info (and therefore some attribute names) is actually 
bogus. The drivedb.h entry should only match with TS.*C drives. I will 
fix this soon.

Attribute assignments look similar to
http://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/342


Thanks,
Christian


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