#4 not working over USB

[Arthur de Jong]

I have a WD My Book connected via USB which isn't working. As you can see below, the Load_Cycle_Count is rather high. I'm running Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae on Debian testing. I would be happy to provide more information if needed.

Thanks for the tool!

# idle3ctl -v /dev/sdd
Checking if Drive is a Western Digital Drive
outgoing cdb: 85 08 2e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ec 00
data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
SG_IO: ATA_16 status=0x0, host_status=0x7, driver_status=0x8
SG_IO: bad response (not CHECK_CONDITION)
Trying legacy HDIO_DRIVE_CMD
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument

# sdparm -i /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd: WD My Book 1110 2010
Device identification VPD page:
Addressed logical unit:
designator type: T10 vendor identification, code set: ASCII
vendor id: WD
vendor specific: My Book 1110 WMAZA1392598

# smartctl -a /dev/sdd
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-2-686-pae] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format)
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Serial Number: WD-WMAZA1392598
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 655d3bc34
Firmware Version: 51.0AB51
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Fri Apr 13 13:17:10 2012 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
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: (36480) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
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: ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 171 167 021 Pre-fail Always - 6450
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 10709
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 083 083 000 Old_age Always - 12567
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 59
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 18
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 141 141 000 Old_age Always - 177306
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 119 102 000 Old_age Always - 31
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12556 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12532 -
# 3 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 12508 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12484 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12460 -
# 6 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 12436 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12412 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12388 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12364 -
#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12340 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12316 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12292 -
#13 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 80% 12269 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12244 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12221 -
#16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12197 -
#17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12173 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12149 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12125 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12078 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12054 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.