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Western Digital Hard Disk Drive OEM Specification
State shall contain a value indicating the state of the device when the command was issued to the device or the reset
occurred as described below.
Standby (If the EPC feature set is enabled, Standby is standby_y or standby_z)
Active/Idle
(If the EPC feature set is enabled, Active/Idle is idle_a or idle_b or idle_c)
SMART Off-line or Self-test
Note: The value of x is vendor specific.
11.23.2.4
Device error count
This field shall contain the total number of errors attributable to the device that have been reported by the device
during the life of the device. This count shall not include errors attributed to the receipt of faulty commands such as
commands codes not implemented by the device or requests with invalid parameters or invalid addresses. If the
maximum value for this field is reached the count shall remain at the maximum value when additional errors are
encountered and logged.