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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:01:51
Message-Id: 200909251101.42588.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. by Dale
1 On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote:
4 > >> I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it
5 > >> was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man page and
6 > >> -I doesn't seem to show that. Can someone tell me if there is a way to
7 > >> get how many hours a drive has been running? I know I saw this before
8 > >> but no clue where it was.
9 > >>
10 > >> Dale
11 > >>
12 > >> :-) :-)
13 > >
14 > > smartctl -a
15 >
16 > That's the one. This look right?
17 >
18 > root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep Minutes
19 > 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 136 136 000 Old_age
20 > Always - 297h+43m
21 > root@smoker / #
22 >
23 > root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hdb | grep Hours
24 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 040 040 000 Old_age
25 > Always - 44353
26 > root@smoker / #
27 >
28 > I know that first drive is older than that. I'm not sure about the
29 > other one either. That's a lot of hours.
30 >
31 > Dale
32 >
33 > :-) :-)
34 >
35
36 well, that is one problem of smart - the vendors can put some pretty silly
37 stuff in the fields - and the tools have to figure it out. hda looks ok, hdb
38 looks like silly vendor ;)

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