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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 59695

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SendDerek (sendderek) wrote : Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

Is there any way to brief a beginner on how to read the output of "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda"? I'm having a hard time finding the line where it states "xx cycles in xx minutes". Here is what I can see from this command (some info has been left out):

Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series
Device Model: HTS541010G9SA00
Firmware Version: MBZOC65D
User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1
Local Time is: Wed Oct 24 07:06:02 2007 MDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 066 066 000 Old_age Always - 349519