From: Christian F. <Chr...@t-...> - 2013-06-17 16:49:17
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Jared Sutton wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using an Areca 1222 with the latest current firmware (V1.51 > 2012-07-04) and the following drives attached: > ... > > Each drive prints the following, showing that it is accepting the setting: > > smartctl 6.2 2013-04-20 r3812 [x86_64-linux-3.2.35] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, > www.smartmontools.org <http://www.smartmontools.org> > > SCT Error Recovery Control set to: > Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) > Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) > > However, when attempting to read the value back, each drive shows the > following: > > smartctl 6.2 2013-04-20 r3812 [x86_64-linux-3.2.35] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, > www.smartmontools.org <http://www.smartmontools.org> > > SCT Error Recovery Control: > Read: 2 (0.2 seconds) > Write: 2 (0.2 seconds) > > I've tried varying the value that I use while setting the ERC, but it > always returns "2 (0.2 seconds)" when I read it back. Am I missing > something? > Reading ERC requires that ATA output registers of SMART WRITE LOG command are returned to smartctl. This is possibly not implemented properly in Areca firmware or driver. If this is the case, ERC can be set but not read back. Thanks, Christian |