smb@cs.columbia.edu ("Steven M. Bellovin") writes:

>Here's the output of 'atactl smart status' on a fairly new laptop.
>Some of the figures look suspect, such as the hours powered on...
>Might it be a word size issue?  I'm running -current/amd64.

The 'raw' values are not defined by the standard and Seagate drives
are known to return something that you cannot interpret.

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