r/techgore 9h ago

Task failed successfully Phone wont let me enter my password

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38 Upvotes

r/techgore 20h ago

Right from the depths of hell Subreddit's name fits well to this situation

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282 Upvotes

I have never seen spilled LCD looking like actual gore


r/techgore 4h ago

shitpost Marketplace “ minor damage that does not impact use “

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6 Upvotes

Saw this last night on FB Marketplace, sure it might not impact the use but come on.


r/techgore 18h ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ Huh? I never played for Fortnite before

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58 Upvotes

Why AMD Radeon Software said Fortnite was played total 3,731,317 hours i never played before 😭🙏


r/techgore 20h ago

IT'S OVER 9000! yo uhhh you ok?

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yo i think my gpu is rendering the whole universe at 8k240fps

yo i think my gpu is rendering the whole universe at 8k240fps


r/techgore 14h ago

Is this fixable? Ummm…

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2 Upvotes

r/techgore 1d ago

I'm tired, boss Should i install windows 8.1?

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39 Upvotes

r/techgore 1d ago

shitpost Ah yes, my favorite advertisement. Windows recovery

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4 Upvotes

r/techgore 1d ago

Task failed successfully I guess im not doing dailies anymore for the next 584 million years

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r/techgore 1d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ My favorite phone got… 3 updates to Google maps. And is not a Pixel 6. (It looks as Pixel 7 Pro)

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r/techgore 2d ago

I'm tired, boss Been mentioned on tech news sites again, my test is still ongoing and wont stop till i get results, its now literally at 9.5PB

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85 Upvotes

r/techgore 1d ago

IT horror Would This Bother You? 👀📸

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r/techgore 3d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ Just a normal stopwatch doing normal stopwatch things

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199 Upvotes

r/techgore 2d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ 100% used, but sure, it's just "almost" full.

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11 Upvotes

r/techgore 2d ago

I'm tired, boss Why is my computer doing this? (to be fair you’re not normally intended to install macOS Big Sur on an iMac 11,2)

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8 Upvotes

I used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to install and apply root patches by the way (shoutout dortania)


r/techgore 2d ago

Is this fixable? Controller decided to sometimes lock into previous inputs for seconds yesterday

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I was swerving left and right on purpose just to see what may cause it, tried driving on keyboard and zero problems, used controller again and did the same thing instantly

Is it over?


r/techgore 2d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ Spotify predicts the future..

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10 Upvotes

Apparently i added this song in the future.


r/techgore 3d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ Scary r/cats calendar widget on iOS

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r/techgore 4d ago

This dirty boy needs a bath Don't smoke next to your pc kids

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651 Upvotes

r/techgore 3d ago

Is this fixable? Reinstall windows issues

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Like I say don't know what todo to fix it, I'm trying to reinstall windows, but 10 this time, the main issues is.. when I'm about to do it, that massage apparence


r/techgore 4d ago

DIWhy Replacement power supply

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Old power supply got fried so I used an Xbox one internal power supply (the bomb looking thing)


r/techgore 4d ago

shitpost Ex- excuse me? Little they know that I am Czech the who time, but it literally says my home village

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8 Upvotes

r/techgore 5d ago

S̸̪̍̕õ̸̻f̶̧̳̾t̶̳̼́w̵͇̯͆͝a̸̜̐r̸̯͚̃è̷̪̓ ram usage 😇 (3gb of ram)

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42 Upvotes

LG k22+ (my old phone)


r/techgore 5d ago

I'm tired, boss 9 Petabytes and still going, [ENDURANCE] 16 year old sandisk p4 64gb

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​What Makes 9 PB Ridiculous?

​140,000+ Full Drive Cycles: This controller has organized and executed enough raw writes to fill the entire physical capacity of this 64GB drive over 140,937 times.

​The E6 Counter Woke Up: After looking frozen at 44, the vendor attribute E6 moved up to 46.

The firmware’s internal math registers are struggling to map values this high, yet it hasn't crashed the primary firmware thread.

​Execution Engine Stays Solid: Managing the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) cache and command queue under continuous,

uninterrupted SATA writes for 61,000+ hours is an incredible testament to this controller's silicon design.

Sector 0 Faults: The error log shows recurring UNC (Uncorrectable) read errors specifically targeting LBA 0x00000000 during read commands.

The boot sector area is heavily degraded, but write caching and DMA transactions remain fully operational.

Does the drive cycles matter if its not on nand chip but the controller itself?

The short answer is yes, The drive cycles still matter greatly for the controller itself,

but for completely different physical and operational reasons than for the NAND flash chips.

​While NAND flash dies from atomic wear (tunnel oxide breakdown from program/erase cycles), the controller suffers from architectural, data management,

and physical processing stress.

​1. Flash Translation Layer (FTL) Mapping Stress

​Table Overwrites: Every drive cycle forces the controller to completely rewrite its internal mapping table (which translates logical LBAs to physical NAND blocks).

​RAM & NVRAM Burnout: The mapping metadata must be constantly swapped between SRAM/DRAM cache and non-volatile system control blocks on the NAND.

The controller's internal metadata blocks often endure 10× to 100× more write cycles than the user data blocks.

​2. Garbage Collection & Wear-Leveling Overhead

​Write Amplification (WA): As the drive is continually cycled, valid and invalid pages become fragmented.

The controller has to work exponentially harder to read, move, and erase blocks behind the scenes.

​Instruction Loop Saturation: Higher wear-leveling workloads keep the controller's internal CPU running at peak processing cycles,

increasing thermal stress and silicon electromigration over time.

​3. Internal Register Overflow & Integer Wrapping

​32-bit/64-bit Counter Limits: Low-cost or older SSD controllers (like early SanDisk SSD P4 designs) were never designed with software registers sized

for millions of drive cycles or petabytes of host writes.

​Firmware Memory Corruption: As raw event counters (like erase counts or written LBAs) overflow their allocated bit widths,

they can wrap around to zero, trigger arithmetic overflow bugs,

or overwrite adjacent NVRAM log structures—directly causing the invalid SMART checksums you are seeing in your logs.

​4. ECC & Read Retry Engine Exhaustion

​Hardware Engine Strain: As the underlying raw NAND bit-error rate (BER) increases with total drive cycles,

the controller's internal ECC hardware decoder has to run maximum LDPC/BCH error-correction algorithms on almost every read.

​Latency & Execution Delays: Processing heavy error-correction math on every host command severely taxes the controller's internal bus and pipeline execution.

​The Bottom Line

NAND chips wear out quietly by losing charge retention, but controllers fail catastrophically due to drive cycle stress—usually manifesting as a sudden freeze,

corrupted internal metadata, or an endless BSY state when firmware counters finally break.

​The fact that SanDisk P4 controller is still managing its FTL execution engine cleanly after ~140,000 drive cycles is remarkable.

https://youtu.be/HLQz_1VLy9E?si=D9Y__jRdIXDTH879

DATA

smartctl -x sda

smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w11-24H2] (AppVeyor)

Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model: SanDisk SSD P4 64GB

Serial Number: 111248300117

LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 4f27f5455

Firmware Version: SSD 8.10

User Capacity: 64 022 175 232 bytes [64,0 GB]

Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical

Rotation Rate: Solid State Device

Form Factor: 1.8 inches

TRIM Command: Available

Device is: Not in smartctl database

ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 2d

SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is: Thu Aug 27 11:01:05 2026 SAST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

AAM feature is: Unavailable

APM feature is: Unavailable

Rd look-ahead is: Enabled

Write cache is: Enabled

DSN feature is: Unavailable

ATA Security is: Disabled, frozen [SEC2]

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity

was never started.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed

without error or no self-test has ever

been run.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection: ( 120) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x15) SMART execute Offline immediate.

No Auto Offline data collection support.

Abort Offline collection upon new

command.

No Offline surface scan supported.

Self-test supported.

No Conveyance Self-test supported.

No Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

power-saving mode.

Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.

General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 16) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct -O---- 100 100 --- - 0

9 Power_On_Hours -O---- 100 100 000 - 61625

12 Power_Cycle_Count -O---- 100 100 000 - 1173

171 Unknown_Attribute -O---- 100 100 000 - 54

172 Unknown_Attribute -O---- 100 100 000 - 939410736

187 Reported_Uncorrect -O---- 100 100 000 - 2234

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O---- 100 100 000 - 0

230 Unknown_SSD_Attribute PO---- 046 100 --- - 0

232 Available_Reservd_Space PO---- 095 100 005 - 0

241 Total_LBAs_Written -O---- 100 100 000 - 18916297464160

242 Total_LBAs_Read -O---- 100 100 000 - 32913028369

||||||_ K auto-keep

|||||__ C event count

||||___ R error rate

|||____ S speed/performance

||_____ O updated online

|______ P prefailure warning

General Purpose Log Directory Version 1

SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]

Address Access R/W Size Description

0x00 GPL,SL R/O 1 Log Directory

0x03 GPL,SL R/O 16 Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log

0x06 GPL,SL R/O 1 SMART self-test log

0x80-0x9f GPL,SL R/W 16 Host vendor specific log

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (16 sectors)

Device Error Count: 181 (device log contains only the most recent 64 errors)

CR = Command Register

FEATR = Features Register

COUNT = Count (was: Sector Count) Register

LBA_48 = Upper bytes of LBA High/Mid/Low Registers ] ATA-8

LH = LBA High (was: Cylinder High) Register ] LBA

LM = LBA Mid (was: Cylinder Low) Register ] Register

LL = LBA Low (was: Sector Number) Register ]

DV = Device (was: Device/Head) Register

DC = Device Control Register

ER = Error register

ST = Status register

Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as

DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,

SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 181 [52] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5 hours (0 days + 5 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 77 40 00 2d+03:11:48.526 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 76 40 00 2d+03:11:48.517 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 75 40 00 2d+03:11:48.509 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 74 40 00 2d+03:11:48.505 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 73 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

Error 180 [51] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6 hours (0 days + 6 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 76 40 00 2d+03:11:48.517 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 75 40 00 2d+03:11:48.509 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 74 40 00 2d+03:11:48.505 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 73 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 72 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

Error 179 [50] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6 hours (0 days + 6 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 75 40 00 2d+03:11:48.509 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 74 40 00 2d+03:11:48.505 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 73 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 72 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 71 40 00 2d+03:11:48.500 READ DMA EXT

Error 178 [49] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2 hours (0 days + 2 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 74 40 00 2d+03:11:48.505 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 73 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 72 40 00 2d+03:11:48.501 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 71 40 00 2d+03:11:48.500 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 42 1b 70 40 00 2d+03:11:48.497 READ DMA EXT

Error 177 [48] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3 hours (0 days + 3 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 42 1b 60 40 00 2d+03:11:48.459 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 3c e2 e0 40 00 2d+03:11:48.459 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 35 97 60 40 00 2d+03:11:48.458 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 26 20 20 40 00 2d+03:11:48.457 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 63 9e 08 40 00 2d+03:11:48.457 READ DMA EXT

Error 176 [47] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11 hours (0 days + 11 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC 2 sectors at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1b 5e 40 00 1d+10:07:21.325 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a de 40 00 1d+10:07:21.324 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a 5e 40 00 1d+10:07:21.324 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 de 40 00 1d+10:07:21.323 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 5e 40 00 1d+10:07:21.323 READ DMA EXT

Error 175 [46] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11 hours (0 days + 11 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC 2 sectors at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1b 5e 40 00 1d+09:58:46.796 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a de 40 00 1d+09:58:46.796 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a 5e 40 00 1d+09:58:46.795 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 de 40 00 1d+09:58:46.795 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 5e 40 00 1d+09:58:46.794 READ DMA EXT

Error 174 [45] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11 hours (0 days + 11 hours)

When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:

ER -- ST COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC

-- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --

40 -- 51 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 Error: UNC 2 sectors at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:

CR FEATR COUNT LBA_48 LH LM LL DV DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name

-- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- -- --------------- --------------------

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1b 5e 40 00 1d+09:39:52.893 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a de 40 00 1d+09:39:52.892 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 1a 5e 40 00 1d+09:39:52.892 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 de 40 00 1d+09:39:52.892 READ DMA EXT

25 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 42 19 5e 40 00 1d+09:39:52.891 READ DMA EXT

SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported

Warning! SMART Self-Test Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

# 1 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 21088 -

# 2 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 54860 -

# 3 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 19043 -

# 4 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 63054 -

# 5 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 25327 -

# 6 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 62483 -

# 7 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 33744 -

# 8 Short captive Completed without error 00% 57803 -

# 9 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 25293 -

#10 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 28072 -

#11 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 14539 -

#12 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 55234 -

#13 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 46428 -

#14 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 49138 -

#15 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 25717 -

#16 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 50305 -

#17 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 39612 -

#18 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 21280 -

#19 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 34598 -

#20 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 17318 -

#21 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 63627 -

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

SCT Commands not supported

Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported

Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported

SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) not supported

Exitcode: 64 (0x40)

Type <return> to exit: