Wording: ATA Error Count, Device Error Count

[Graham Perrin]

Are the two phrases synonymous?

Or do ATA Error Count and Device Error Count have different meanings?

I'm comparing what's above:

• a device error under the heading of ATA Error Count

– with, for example, ​https://superuser.com/q/746720/84988 where there is:

• an ATA error but no device error.

I assume that the phrase ATA Error Count is somehow deprecated. If so, this is a request for enhancement to the GUI, for wording to be consistent.

Thanks

[Christian Franke]

Smartctl uses ATA Error Count for the legacy SMART Error Log (-l error) and Device Error Count for SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (-l xerror). The latter wording is also used by ATA standards.

This long term (2009) difference will definitely not be changed because monitoring applications which parse smartctl output may rely on it.

The Count values may differ because only the extended log supports 48-bit ATA commands.
The legacy log may ...

• be always empty,
• contain only errors for 28-bit ATA commands,
• contain only errors for 28-bit LBAs,
• contain all errors, but larger LBAs are truncated or set to 0xfffffff.

Note that the ​GSmartControl GUI frontend is a separate project not maintained here.

[Christian Franke]

Changing long term smartctl output would break existing application which parse it. This possibly includes GSmartControl.

Please address change requests for the GSmartControl GUI itself to the upstream project or the maintainer of the package.

[Graham Perrin]

Thank you for clarifying ☑ and:

Note that the ​GSmartControl GUI frontend is a separate project not maintained here.

– apologies, I lost sight of the separation.