From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2003-11-17 03:28:58
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Ed, Please have a look at the attached smartctl -a output from a freebsd user. The output terminates abruptly at: 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Warning: device does not support General Purpose Logging Warning: device does not support Error Logging Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging which surprises me -- this is a recent maxtor disk and should support at least error logging and self-test logging. My first thought is that on freebsd the ATA driver is not correctly returning the READ LOG commands in this case. Any ideas? Cheers, Bruce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:20:47 +0000 From: Mark Dixon <ma...@ma...> To: sma...@li... Subject: [smartmontools-support]Drive for adding to database -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Here is a drive to add to your database - I think its power_on_hours should be minutes, because its not been up that long. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/t6PnLqgJ90OcaiARAreEAJ4g5YluxL/nQmlD+hp8T5ZpS020WQCgwNk2 NZoYq6IMw1euyptkT3yMua8= =s4oG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Eduard M. <mar...@ro...> - 2003-11-17 19:26:32
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Bruce, I'm not sure what is going on... I have 2 ATA drives on my system, I'm attaching the output of smartctrl -a for both. In one case, I see a similar truncation, but I almost expect that, given the age of the drive. The other drive seems to report Logs correctly, but maybe something is still a little screwy... Ed -- Eduard Martinescu <mar...@ro...> |
From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2003-11-17 19:39:15
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Hi Ed, > I'm not sure what is going on... I have 2 ATA drives on my system, > I'm attaching the output of smartctrl -a for both. In one case, I see > a similar truncation, but I almost expect that, given the age of the > drive. The truncation here looks OK. The IBM drive is ATA-4, and the self-test and error logs only got added in ATA-5. So the output is sensible. But the output that Mark sent you was for a much more recent drive (Maxtor or IBM) ATA-6. I'd be very surprised if that didn't support the self-test and error logs. > The other drive seems to report Logs correctly, but maybe something is > still a little screwy... The Maxtor drive output is entertaining. Attribute 9 is in minutes, and the drive exhibits the 16-bit overflow Maxtor firmware bug -- see smartmontools FAQ on the web page. In particular the Maxtor drive should have -v 9,minutes set. It is approximately 7189*64 = 460096 minutes old, but reports its lifetime as 460096 % 65536 = 1344 minutes. Another interesting Maxtor bug is that it's making error log entries whenever it gets 'identify packet device'. According to ATA specs it shouldn't do this. Do you know where the identify packet device commands are coming from? smartctl tried identify device then if that fails it tries identify device. So we shouldn't be the guilty party. Is it the freebsd kernel? Cheers, Bruce |
From: Mark D. <ma...@ma...> - 2003-11-17 22:33:52
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On Monday 17 Nov 2003 19:38, Bruce Allen wrote: > > The Maxtor drive output is entertaining. Attribute 9 is in minutes, and > the drive exhibits the 16-bit overflow Maxtor firmware bug -- see > smartmontools FAQ on the web page. > > In particular the Maxtor drive should have -v 9,minutes set. It is > approximately 7189*64 =3D 460096 minutes old, but reports its lifetime as > 460096 % 65536 =3D 1344 minutes. > > Another interesting Maxtor bug is that it's making error log entries > whenever it gets 'identify packet device'. According to ATA specs it > shouldn't do this. Do you know where the identify packet device commands > are coming from? smartctl tried identify device then if that fails it > tries identify device. So we shouldn't be the guilty party. Is it the > freebsd kernel? Thinking about it, the very first time I ran smartctl on this drive, I may= =20 have got more out of it, but nothing since. I seem to recall some entries i= n=20 an error log, but it couldn't have been the IBM drive (I'd make a great=20 software tester wouldn't I - always providing all the relevent=20 information :-) Sounds like this particular maxtor firmware is a bt of a lemon. Mark |
From: Eduard M. <mar...@ro...> - 2003-11-18 00:51:17
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Well, the packet identify entries are my fault. They stem from my initial work at porting the smartmontools code, so I'm not overly concerned. Mark, Cound you send me the output of smartctl -a -r ataioctl,10 against the Maxtor drive. Maybe I can make sense of what is being returned... Thanks, Ed On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:38, Bruce Allen wrote: > Hi Ed, > > > I'm not sure what is going on... I have 2 ATA drives on my system, > > I'm attaching the output of smartctrl -a for both. In one case, I see > > a similar truncation, but I almost expect that, given the age of the > > drive. > > The truncation here looks OK. The IBM drive is ATA-4, and the self-test > and error logs only got added in ATA-5. So the output is sensible. > > But the output that Mark sent you was for a much more recent drive (Maxtor > or IBM) ATA-6. I'd be very surprised if that didn't support the self-test > and error logs. > > > The other drive seems to report Logs correctly, but maybe something is > > still a little screwy... > > The Maxtor drive output is entertaining. Attribute 9 is in minutes, and > the drive exhibits the 16-bit overflow Maxtor firmware bug -- see > smartmontools FAQ on the web page. > > In particular the Maxtor drive should have -v 9,minutes set. It is > approximately 7189*64 = 460096 minutes old, but reports its lifetime as > 460096 % 65536 = 1344 minutes. > > Another interesting Maxtor bug is that it's making error log entries > whenever it gets 'identify packet device'. According to ATA specs it > shouldn't do this. Do you know where the identify packet device commands > are coming from? smartctl tried identify device then if that fails it > tries identify device. So we shouldn't be the guilty party. Is it the > freebsd kernel? > > Cheers, > Bruce > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC > GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from > any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! > https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > Sma...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support -- Eduard Martinescu <mar...@ro...> |