linux-kernel - Re: SATA exceptions

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Message-ID: <46959C54.6030905@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:13:24 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
CC:	caglar@...dus.org.tr, Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions

Mark Lord wrote:
> I'm not even sure how to interpret those numbers.
> It seems rather odd that nearly all fields are either "100" or "253",
> so those are probably pre-programmed numbers rather than actual counts.
> The raw value at the end of the line (for the various "Reallocated*"
> fields)
> is probably the real value here.

I dunno exactly either.  Different vendors seem to use different metrics
anyway but increasing raw number on reallocate counter is pretty easy to
interpret.

-- 
tejun
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