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Getting "increasing command timeouts" error on SMART
Hey Guys, Do I need to worry about this: "Detected increasing command timeouts[65539] on disk 2 [ST31000340AS, 9QJ1AFDD]. This often indicates an impending failure. Please be prepared to replace t...
ken830 wrote:
toomanybarts wrote: the exact same 4295032833 command timeouts. Seems a bit unlikely that we would have the same exact number of errors.
Right. 4295032833 decimal is 0001 0001 0001 hexadecimal. It's unlikely that that's an actual count of anything; it looks more like the real count is only 1, but the SMART parser is misinterpreting it. The Command Timeout count is shown as a 48-bit number in the SMART spec, and that's how it's being interpreted in your case, but maybe your drive stores it as a 16-bit number and repeats it three times for some reason. Or maybe the SMART parser has a bug that makes it erroneously read the same 16 bits three times.
There might be something to worry about here, but it isn't command timeouts.
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