package: smartmontools reopen 361551 retitle 361551 smartd logs shows confusing normalized values thanks
These "normalized" values in syslog are constant source of confusion. It does not help that in smartmontools literature the human-understandable value is called RAW_VALUE and the value getting logged is called VALUE. I don't think reporting normalized values alone is helpful except for those with inner knowledge of S.M.A.R.T. For everyone else, the displaying the RAW value would me much more informative. Example: Jul 10 01:35:35 watergate smartd[3795]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 103 to 109 Jul 10 01:35:42 watergate smartd[3795]: Device: /dev/hdb, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 42 to 41 Jul 10 02:05:35 watergate smartd[3795]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 109 to 103 without the -r option, you cannot compare the values of the disks, nor is it intuitively deducable that "103 to 109" means the temperature has actually *lowered*. A borderline acceptable solution would be to add "-r 194" to the default smartd command line. But this should be reported to upstream also, as this is not really a temperature-specific problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
