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I’m still writing in Prolog…

Last night I programmed until 21:00, after which I was tired of it, and went out for a beer with Heth. We went to “Divaka” (where we found Velin, on a table in the other part of the pub), we drank a bit, and then chervarium came, and we kept drinking until 1:00, speaking about the normal amount of topics (about one of them I’ll talk after a while). After that we went through home, to give him the book on quantum computers, to check for himself something about the algorithm for factoring large numbers, and I sat again to program in prolog – it turned out that I was able to solve a lot of the problems in one try – the way I need it, because the exam will be on paper. I might post the solutions somewhere, as an appendix to the textbook.

Right now I’m still working on the prolog stuff, after taking care of the washing machine – it came at noon, and with the driver we carried it without any great problems (its weight isn’t specified in the documentation or in google, but it’s probably somewhere aroung 100kg). Now I’ll have to find someone to link it to the water and the drain, and to get something to hang the clothes to dry.

And something work related – who has a seagate disk, to pull some SMART parameters (with smartctl -a), and to tell me the result? I have a problem, there are drives, that give me errors only in smart, but nowhere else, and are working, but I have no idea how long this will continue… Here’s (a part of) smartctl -a ‘s output of one such drive>

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
Revision Number: 10
Attribute                    Flag     Value Worst Threshold Raw Value
(  1)Raw Read Error Rate     0x000f   062   059   006       149772871
(  3)Spin Up Time            0x0003   096   096   000       0
(  4)Start Stop Count        0x0032   100   100   020       2
(  5)Reallocated Sector Ct   0x0033   100   100   036       0
(  7)Seek Error Rate         0x000f   076   060   030       42680804
(  9)Power On Hours          0x0032   100   100   000       679
( 10)Spin Retry Count        0x0013   100   100   097       0
( 12)Power Cycle Count       0x0032   100   100   020       53
(194)Temperature             0x0022   025   040   000       25
(195)Hardware ECC Recovered  0x001a   062   058   000       149772871
(197)Current Pending Sector  0x0012   100   100   000       0
(198)Offline Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000       0
(199)UDMA CRC Error Count    0x003e   200   200   000       0
(200)Unknown Attribute       0x0000   100   253   000       0
(202)Unknown Attribute       0x0032   100   253   000       0

As seen, attributes 1 and 195 have huge values, and this really troubles me. The drives are Seagate ST3120026AS, Serial ATA (but in the BIOS they’re specified to show as PATA). If someone had similar problems, please, write to me, because can be a problem in the lot. After searching in google I saw a similar problem in a forum, but it was under windows, and looked like driver related (although every few weeks the drive went into such condition that a reformat through seagate’s utils was needed).

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