Re: Hard drive checksum issue

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM 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.

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