Flags - meanings

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CTow
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Flags - meanings

Post by CTow »

Good day,
When in the S.M.A.R.T. screen, at the lower right there is a list of Flags e.g. TMC, LBIN. Do you have an available list of all of the meanings?
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Re: Flags - meanings

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The flags you mentioned are related to SCSI/SAS drives:

TMC = Threshold Met Criteria, shows the relation between the threshold and the current value
LBIN = Binary Format List, suggests that the entry should be interpreted as binary data

You can find other flags in SCSI Primary Commands reference.

For example this file: https://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.08/08-309r1.pdf
is a very old standard but can help (newer standards may be not publicly available).
See page 250 for details, for possible other flags too (DU, DS, TSD, ETC, LP, etc..)
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Re: Flags - meanings

Post by CTow »

Thank you. I'm working through some RAID problems with new SATA drives.

A techie at the controller card supplier thought that HDS would help. It has.

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