Re: Hard drive checksum issue

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:10:32 +0000
David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> 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.

Neither of those is reassuring. There is a reason why people use
checksums. Many years ago, I worked for Maxtor writing test software,
long before SMART came in. Something is fishy here.

> 
> >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

I did a short and long test. Both reported success. Neither corrected
the checksum issue.

I also pulled in and compiled git head. No luck.

I don't see on WD's web site any way to update the firmware.

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