Re: [smartmontools-support] Slight upgrade: now smartctl -s on won't work on my Samsung drive.

[Justin P. <jp...@lu...>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Adam Funk wrote:

> I just did an Ubuntu upgrade from edgy to feisty and now I can't get
> smartctl or most of the output from smartd to work any more; the
> smartmontools version changed from 5.36-6ubuntu2 to 5.36-8ubuntu2,
> which sounds like a small difference to me.  ;-)
>
> I've tried various commands to enable SMART.
>
> These fail with the "unsupported field in scsi command" error, as I'd
> expect for a SATA drive:
>
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on /dev/sda
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on -F samsung /dev/sda
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on -F samsung2 /dev/sda
>
> These sometimes fail with "A mandatory SMART command failed:
> exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options." but
> sometimes they say "SMART Enabled." but I don't think they mean it.
> The first one is the one that used to work:
>
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on -d ata /dev/sda
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on -d ata -F samsung /dev/sda
>  $ sudo smartctl -s on -d ata -F samsung2 /dev/sda
>
> Adding -T permissive doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
>
> This is a typical bit of `grep smartd /var/log/syslog` now:
>
> Jun 12 11:33:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 12:03:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 12:33:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 13:03:07 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 13:33:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 14:03:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Jun 12 14:03:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Unknown_Attribute changed from 154 [Raw 28] to 151 [Raw 29]
> Jun 12 14:03:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 154 [Raw 28] to 151 [Raw 29]
> Jun 12 14:33:06 bunsen smartd[950]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
>
> I'm still using this line in /etc/smartd.conf:
>
> /dev/sda -a -d ata -R 194 -R 190
>
>
>
> I'd be grateful for any ideas on how to get this working again.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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What kernel?

You need 2.6.15 or higher for SMART pass-thru over SATA.

Justin.