My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

[Brendan Perrine]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 14:17:25 +0300
Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The "Raw Value" is the number of hours. The maximum I ever saw on a


I have a computer that I have only had for a little more than 2 years that already has more than 10,000 powered on hours on two disks granted these are newer than pata disks 
-- smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-9136-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

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SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
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  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   139   139   054    Pre-fail  Offline      -       72
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   131   131   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       282 (Average 294)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       776
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   126   126   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       32
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       10404
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       776
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       810
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       810
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   166   166   000    Old_age   Always       -       36 (Min/Max 17/44)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2555
 for my hard drive although this one is sata hard drive although for a desktop so it would have less power cycles and less physical movement that can mess up the drive. I don't have a 32 bit only laptop handy at the moment and I am probably an extreme edge case I have my mom laptop from about 2008 which is 64 bit and still has a pata drive in it. 

I checked a laptop used from my mom with and it had 9,330 power on hours on a pata disk but this particular laptop has a 64 bit processor but came with 32 bit windows vista. 

These are all in my posession right now of hardware I have on me. All the hard drives had zero reallocated sectors. I do understand hard drives eventually fail. I don't think they fail quite that often or all die by 10,000 power on hours. Although hard drive failure is mostly what hardware failures I have had. 

Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>