Opened 7 hours ago

#1957 new defect

Byte swapped description in smartctl.8

Reported by: Ángel Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: all Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

smartctl.8.in says:

(...)  An indication that your Samsung disk needs this
option is that the self-test log is printed correctly, but there are a
very large number of errors in the SMART error log.  This is because
the error count is byte swapped.  Thus a disk with five errors
(0x0005) will appear to have 20480 errors (0x5000).

added by Bruce 21 years ago https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/commit/5b5194445c694cfc8914be3f52792b6d9dcd4c43

However, a byte-swapped 0x0005 would not be 0x5000, that value is both byte-swapped and nibble-swapped, which -while not impossible- would be quite unusual. I strongly suspect that was an error when writing it and it should read 0x0500.

Attachments (1)

samsung2.patch (624 bytes ) - added by Ángel 7 hours ago.
Documentation patch

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Change History (1)

by Ángel, 7 hours ago

Attachment: samsung2.patch added

Documentation patch

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