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Re: Hard drive checksum issue



On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:46:14 +0000
David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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."

I agree that the problem does not affect any user data. However, it
reduces the reliability of the SMART data that the checksum covers, and
that is what I find disconcerting.

> 
> 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 :)

Right. And all the WD software available for downloads runs on one of
two operating systems, neither of which is Linux, which is what I have
on this computer. Do any bulk storage vendors offer their own
diagnostic software for Linux? (Rhetorical question)

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