Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

[Dale]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago.  I thought it
>>>> was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man page and
>>>> -I doesn't seem to show that.  Can someone tell me if there is a way to
>>>> get how many hours a drive has been running?  I know I saw this before
>>>> but no clue where it was.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
>>>>
>>> smartctl -a
>>>
>> That's the one.  This look right?
>>
>> root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep Minutes
>>   9 Power_On_Minutes        0x0032   136   136   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       297h+43m
>> root@smoker / #
>>
>> root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hdb | grep Hours
>>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   040   040   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       44353
>> root@smoker / #
>>
>> I know that first drive is older than that.  I'm not sure about the
>> other one either.  That's a lot of hours.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)   :-)
>>
>>
>
> well, that is one problem of smart - the vendors can put some pretty silly
> stuff in the fields - and the tools have to figure it out. hda looks ok, hdb
> looks like silly vendor ;)
>
>
>

Actually, the drives are about 5 years old and this box runs about
24/7.  The second one is pretty close to right according to the math. 
That is about 5 years or so.  I think the first one lost count, several
times I might add.  That's only about 12 days. 

Dang, that second drive is giving me my money's worth.  Shhh !  Don't
tell the drive.  It may blow smoke any minute.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)