Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Doug wrote: On 02/21/2011 09:06 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: I too mourn the demise of the floppy, but when you come right down to it, a plain write-once CD costs about as much as a floppy used to. It just seems like such a waste to just put a few KB on a CD! I've found that smaller CDs or

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary And THIS is why I mourn the loss of the

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Doug
On 02/21/2011 09:06 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-14 Thread Paul Berry
Regarding your post. I have 2 OCZ SSD drives that were getting SMART errors with Linux. These are newer drives with Sandforce controller. These drives got SMART errors right out of the box with Linux. My 2 older OCZ SSD drives with Indilix controllers do not get SMART errors. I checked the

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Glenn English put forth on 4/15/2010 9:10 PM: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x 000 000 000Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x 000 000 000Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x 000 000 000Old_age

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Glenn English: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x 007 000 000Old_age Offline

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:10:19 -0600, Glenn English wrote: SMART is warning a lot about a couple week old OCZ SSD. This is my first SSD, and I don't know if this is normal or I have a defective drive. Looks broken to me, but... (...) Warning: device does not support Error Logging Warning!

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Glenn English
On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Stan and Jochen and Camaleón wrote: ~ Don't worry about it Thank you all very much. I'll just turn off smart; badblocks says it's OK too. FWIW, it seems to be a nice little 'drive' for a GUI-less router. It's only 30G, and the software's using way less than 10%

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Glenn English put forth on 4/16/2010 9:00 AM: On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Stan and Jochen and Camaleón wrote: ~ Don't worry about it Thank you all very much. I'll just turn off smart; badblocks says it's OK too. FWIW, it seems to be a nice little 'drive' for a GUI-less router. It's

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Glenn English
On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: That's a perfect application for a small SSD. You probably could have even got by with an 8 Gig'er and saved some cash. This was the smallest I could fine at newegg. If I'd known how small this was going to be, I'd have looked a little

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Glenn English put forth on 4/16/2010 7:21 PM: On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: That's a perfect application for a small SSD. You probably could have even got by with an 8 Gig'er and saved some cash. This was the smallest I could fine at newegg. If I'd known how small

ssd / smart question

2010-04-15 Thread Glenn English
SMART is warning a lot about a couple week old OCZ SSD. This is my first SSD, and I don't know if this is normal or I have a defective drive. Looks broken to me, but... It's connected to an Asus AT3CG-I mobo. Some output from webmin -- smart's writing in the logs quite a bit, too, about