Re: [smartmontools-support]Disk cowardly refuses to enable SMART after failures

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Leon, good, thanks.

Bruce

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Leon Woestenberg wrote:

> Bruce,
>
>
> sorry for the late reply, but I wanted to let you know before a new release
> went out:
>
> I can confirm that this behaviour I reported earlier (on -support) has indeed
> been fixed in CVS HEAD somewhere since 5.33.
>
> The subject drive now shows two FAILING_NOW items and reports bad health,
> smartctl exit code decimal 24, all as expected.
>
> Thanks, regards,
>
> Leon.
>
>
>
> Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I have a disk that fails in the sense that somewhere near the end of the
>> disk (roughly at 98% of the highest LBA) it starts to return medium
>> errors. The disk has been dropped on the floor, which is the
>> cause of these errors - It is now a welcome test subject for SMART :-)
>> 
>> Using smartmontools 5.33, it has always been behaving properly with
>> regards to queries. However, since the drop and errors, it now cowardly
>> refuses to enable SMART, or so it seems.
>> 
>> smartmontools reports "SMART enabled" directly followed by "SMART
>> disabled. Use -s on to enable SMART", i.e. contradicting itself.
>> 
>> What can I try more than I already tried below?
>> 
>> Note that this drive is accessed using the "Marvell" access methods,
>> under 2.4.28-31 Linux, as follows (see below).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Leon Woestenberg.
>> 
>> 
>> [root@tracs root]# smartctl -d marvell -i  /dev/sdb
>> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>> Device Model:    ST3200822AS
>> Serial Number:    3LJ0YB2A
>> Firmware Version: 3.01
>> User Capacity:    200,049,647,616 bytes
>> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
>> ATA Version is:  6
>> ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
>> Local Time is:    Tue Jul 19 12:39:03 2005 UTC
>> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
>> SMART support is: Enabled
>> 
>> SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
>> [root@tracs root]# smartctl -d marvell -s on -o on -S on /dev/sdb
>> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
>> SMART Enabled.
>> SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
>> [root@tracs root]# echo $?
>> 0
>> [root@tracs root]# smartctl -d marvell -s on -H /dev/sdb
>> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
>> SMART Enabled.
>> SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
>> [root@tracs root]# echo $?
>> 0
>> 
>
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