[smartmontools-support] Need assistance to interpret Seagate ST3200822A behavior

[Ciprian C. <che...@gm...>]

Hey.

Recently I seem to have a bit of a problem with this particular drive. It's
connected to an ITE8212 controller. 

I have a few questions Google didn't provide answers yet:

1. Should this drive have SMART capabilities? Could it be the controller's
fault for not being able to see the SMART thingies?
2. What's with the checksum problem?
3. After trying smartctl with -T permissive the harddrive (or driver?)
switches until reboot to a behavior where both smartctl -i and hdparm -I
both report being unable to identify the drive.

I attached the outputs before that. Thanks for your time.

Cipi

pinky ~ # uname -a
Linux pinky 2.6.28-hardened-r7 #1 Tue May 19 03:32:50 EEST 2009 i686 AMD
Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux