From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr70E-0006Vo-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:22:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80314E0948; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f190.google.com (mail-vw0-f190.google.com [209.85.212.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFDFE0948 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws28 with SMTP id 28so1578081vws.10 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2dJwIfpJJuI5Sy0ks98f3mWBnfFGL1H2de8bLZZCtD0=; b=vDEBnz+nIj4UKDa+G/ppmzTI69952Mr2Qe7h9bn4iWmSNUgxG9VV1I9UuGmD6fv7cZ Yi39XEiVWoJMvOe1nYGX8tfMFfdmaKcZZJFc8GYuqT0x8NSsPGF52DXkbd0qxZIcQeBT xn2P3RyPkAQkjG/bqLLUZ9DxDKvcYGXGf7YUw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fJBBmja6DOXRk46lKD/scdJJO7T4GunV4Ah6s7LM/RWOliV/II6r2gHWl0VPpxeW+T RnAR/QWn+S8gQA8+PzmPkkoGBdcP7AQXWFqECFSc6O+KTk/P5COMvU8zOhqfEAgz2SUe lFGRobz5S5u/UwpWQGOy5OWC/VLUYJ5pZgWsg= Received: by 10.220.10.133 with SMTP id p5mr1302239vcp.119.1253870527964; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-152-77-177.jan.bellsouth.net [70.152.77.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm1465143yxe.15.2009.09.25.02.22.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABC8BBD.2060709@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:22:05 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <200909250335.59291.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4ABC37C9.6010305@gmail.com> <200909251101.42588.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909251101.42588.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 335c8042-eacf-4ffe-88e2-36a9d9306840 X-Archives-Hash: 8faca46619aefc6281def28ca1832b25 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 :-) :-)