Re: Determination of the HDD SMART health status
Robert S <[email protected]>
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The smartctl utility doesn't determine the health status at all. The determination is made by the drive's firmware and smartctl just reports back what the firmware says. In all the cases I can remember, the firmware seems to fail the drive if any of the attributes is at or below the threshold. Of course, this is pretty late in the game... On 3/27/2015 6:12 AM, Ivo Stojan wrote: > > Hi > > I am curious to know how is the SMART health status determined exactly > by the smartctl utility. Is it determined by some logic in the utility > based on info obtained by REQUEST SENSE and/or some other commands or > it is simply fetched from the HDD? In the latter case my next question > is how and from where. > > I am asking because I have noticed that this health status can contain > PFA codes even if informational exceptions are disabled (the HDD logs > the data but reporting is explicitly disabled). > > Thanks in advance. > > BR > > Ivo > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support