[smartmontools-support] Odd statistic value, smartctl bug?

[Christian Franke]

egon at allmail.net wrote:
> Here it is. The value does seem to be growing, but those in the database are quite large, so I imagine it will continue to increase.
>
> ...
> General Purpose Log 0x04 [Device Statistics log], Page 4-4 (of 6)
> 0000800: 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 55 03 00 00 00 00 00 c0 |...

0000800: 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 55 03 00 00 00 00 00 c0
....... offset 0x008 ----------->
....... value 0x00000355 = 853 --^^-^^-^^-^^          ||
....... flags 0x80|0x40 = supported and valid --------^^


> Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
> Page  Offset Size        Value Flags Description
> 0x04  =====  =               =  ===  == General Errors Statistics (rev 1) ==
> 0x04  0x008  4             853  ---  Number of Reported Uncorrectable Errors
> 0x04  0x010  4               1  ---  Resets Between Cmd Acceptance and Completion
>                                  |||_ C monitored condition met
>                                  ||__ D supports DSN
>                                  |___ N normalized value

Conclusion: smartctl prints the value as returned by the drive. There is 
likely a bug in the drive firmware.

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Regards,
Christian