On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 02:49, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:10:32 +0000 David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is there any way to tell the drive to recalculate the checksum? I > > > don't see anything in the smartctl man page. > > > > Hi, internet search on the error message does find discussion of this, > > including: > > https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/347 > > https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1884 > > Thanks. I should have thought of that. Doh.
No problem. > Neither of those is reassuring. I found them reassuring, because Christian Franke is the primary developer of smartmontools [1], and in the first bug above he wrote, 11 years ago: "This is a harmless drive firmware bug which could be safely ignored." and in the second bug above he wrote, 11 months ago: "[it] is usually harmless. It does not affect any user data." So that's more than a decade of "dont worry about it". I guess you seek further clarification with either him or WD (as a recent customer) if you are concerned about it. WD will probably tell you to use some proprietary diagnostic tool though, not that freedom software probably written by some communist :) [1] https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Team
