[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

[Rob Smith]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using smartctrl with most of these drives. Although as I said
> before the problem may be with a newer revision of 7200.11 than I
> have. Most of the seagate drives I have were purchased before the
> summer of 2008.
>
> John

The problem is that they actually re-use smart values for things other
then what is standard, for example, my 7200.10 uses
Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered, and Seek_Error_Rate not
as they are intended to be, so smartctl reports massive error numbers
for those parameters, but they're meaningless. Personally, I'm a fan
of knowing when I'm getting raw reads or seek errors...

We also don't know if Reallocated_Sector_Ct, Current_Pending_Sector,
or Offline_Uncorrectable are valid numbers or not. Seagate only tells
us that they don't follow specs...

~Rob