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Seagate Health bits explanation

December 25th, 2007, 21:24

Hi Guys, wishing you all have a good holiday seasons.

I am having some difficulties in understanding Seagate Accumulated health bits and Current Health bits, i hope someone wiling to explain to me.

On the manual, 2 words in hex notation (XXXX.YYYY) , X=current health status, Y= accumulated health status.

Example: If I have a drive with Hlth=0000 Chlth=0100, how to interpret these numbers from the table below?

Bit Number | Meaning of bit set to 1
15 | Excessive number of skipped sectors etc...
14
13
12
11
and so on

Re: Seagate Health bits explanation

December 28th, 2007, 7:59

anyone?

Re: Seagate Health bits explanation

December 28th, 2007, 11:37

Code:
Pgm=00 Trk=0EBC7(0EBC7).0(0).007(006) Zn=0 Err=00 ErCt=0000 Hlth=0008 CHlth=0000 Ready LBA=00000000

Hi,
Hlth=0008 (Hex) = 1000 (Bin) -> 3
Hlth=0018 (Hex) = 11000 (Bin) -> 3, 4
Hlth=0100 (Hex) = 100000000 (Bin) -> 8

...876543210
...100011000

Mikippp

Re: Seagate Health bits explanation

December 29th, 2007, 7:58

thank you Mikippp
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