Re: Hard drive checksum issue
On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 at 22:16, Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> 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.
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
>From what I read of those and others, I get the impression that:
- It's nothing to worry about
- Maybe it will go away after a 'smartctl -t short <device>', I would try that
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