On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: > >> I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it > >> was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man page and > >> -I doesn't seem to show that. Can someone tell me if there is a way to > >> get how many hours a drive has been running? I know I saw this before > >> but no clue where it was. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > smartctl -a > > That's the one. This look right? > > r...@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep Minutes > 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 136 136 000 Old_age > Always - 297h+43m > r...@smoker / # > > r...@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/hdb | grep Hours > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 040 040 000 Old_age > Always - 44353 > r...@smoker / # > > I know that first drive is older than that. I'm not sure about the > other one either. That's a lot of hours. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
well, that is one problem of smart - the vendors can put some pretty silly stuff in the fields - and the tools have to figure it out. hda looks ok, hdb looks like silly vendor ;)
