Spin Retry Count going up 128 instead of down?

[Riccardo]

Hey guys, these are my smart results. What suprises me is that the Spin Retry count doesnt decrease, it went up the last 3 weeks by about 3-4 up to 128. What does that mean, I assumed that it should decrease if its getting worse, or am i reading this wrong?

By the way, what do u guys think about my laptops hdd condition?

ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status
0A Spinup Retry Count 30 128 100 0 OK: Value is normal



ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status
01 Raw Read Error Rate 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
02 Throughput Performance 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
03 Spinup Time 1 100 100 1736 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 1422 OK: Always passes
05 Reallocated Sector Count 50 100 100 7 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 91 91 3714 OK: Always passes
0A Spinup Retry Count 30 128 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 1406 OK: Always passes
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 100 100 75 OK: Always passes
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 99 99 14103 OK: Always passes
C2 Temperature 0 100 100 11, 34 OK: Always passes
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 7 OK: Always passes
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passes
C6 Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passes
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passes
DC Disk Shift 0 100 100 86 OK: Always passes
DE Loaded Hours 0 92 92 3362 OK: Always passes
DF Load/Unload Retry Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passes
E0 Load Friction 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passes
E2 Load-In Time 0 100 100 291 OK: Always passes
F0 Head Flying Hours 1 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal

[fzabkar]

See my answer to your question in Usenet:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys ... 522302dd43

Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 1422

Spinup Retry Count 30 128 100 0

It appears that the cooked value of the Spinup Retry Count starts at 100 and then increments by 1 for every 50 Start/Stop cycles where there have been no spinup retries.

In this way you can distinguish between a drive that has had no retries in, say, 1000 starts (120) and one that has been error free for 100 starts (102).