On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote:
> I just took delivery of two WDC WD4005FFBX-68CAUN0 hard drives, to > replace two failing hard drives. I have put one of the new ones into > service. Everything looks nominal, except that smartctl reports: > > Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART > checksum. > > Is there any way to tell the drive to recalculate the checksum? I don't > see anything in the smartctl man page. > > I think my next step is to get the other new hard drive into service > ASAP. Is the firmware up-to-date? < https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50745/~/firmware-download-and-updates-for-western-digital-internal-and-external-drives >. Jeff
