Re: Hard drive checksum issue
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 12:32, Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 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.
I agree that it is strange that the checksum is still incorrect after running a
SMART test. I was expecting doing that would fix the issue. Sorry, I am
out of ideas now.
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