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Old 13th July 2008
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The format (and some of the numbers) depend strongly on the disk you use. Here's what mine displays (with lots of edits):
Code:
Device: SEAGATE  ST336753LW
...
Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:   25504257        0         0  25504257   28315309       9329.822       20979
write:         0        0         0         0          0       3033.998           0

Non-medium error count:    15235
The error rate seems high, but it has not changed much since I forced the bad-sector relocation (which differs from a low-level format). That is what you keep your eye on.
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