<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jeff,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 23:53, Jeffrey Walton <<a href="mailto:noloader@gmail.com">noloader@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I'm looking for someone who has experience with the drives. Is this<br>
drive failing? Can I ignore the message? Is the S.M.A.R.T. software<br>
out-of-date and producing incorrect results? Should I be doing<br>
something different? Something else?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I've never had that problem before and would be inclined to return the drive to the vendor.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">In the Ubuntu package repositories is a tool called "f3" which I run on memory sticks when I buy them.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">To quote the info on f3:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><i>"F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a<br>flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive).<br><br>F3 writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you<br>have not been bought a card with a smaller capacity than stated. Note that<br>the main goal of F3 is not to fix your removable media. However, there are<br>resources to mark the invalid areas.<br><br>This package provides these executables: f3write, f3read, f3brew, f3fix<br>and f3probe."</i></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>