On Jan 13, 2008 7:16 PM, Oren Beck <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2. Is it possible to somehow log write to device events as a file entry?<br>Since many devices have a Write indicator, some way of probing that indicator to increment a counter, then some estimation of drive wear would be captured as a human readable numerical.
<br></blockquote></div><br>Doing so would seem to double the number of write-to-device events. How about a way to query the device for how many such events had occurred. We could set up a protocol. Call it "Systematic Tracking Using Performance Indication Data". Yeah, that should work.
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