SMART Check and Attribute 190

[blargman]

If your running Centos 5.x the latest smartmontools released is working on many more sata drives without the need for -d option. I think this is the cause of the new messages. The flag wasn't being added by smartcheck before like it should have been.

[isputra]

Hi,

Is it normal if my HD have above 40 on temperature ?

                S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/sda
                From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sda
                Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   056   044   045    Old_age   Always   In_the_past 44 (0 2 46 39)
                ----END /dev/sda--
                
                S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/sdb
                From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sdb
                Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   060   043   045    Old_age   Always   In_the_past 40
                ----END /dev/sdb--

[rsong]

If i understand correctly, that alert indicate the old warning in the past.