Re: [smartmontools-support]Error SMART Enable failed: Input/output error

[Andrew Z <an...@sp...>]

Bruce,

Thanks for the suggestion, but today's CVS had the same results: SMART 
cannot be enabled.

(Now I am looking into Volker Kuhlmann's suggestion about the Maxtor 
utility.)


Bruce Allen wrote:

> I suggest that you try a recent CVS snapshot version of smartmontools. 
> Older versions had a bug where you could not enable SMART on a disk 
> that had failing SMART status.
>
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
>>> I cannot boot Windows 2000 Professional, so I ran smartctl from Knoppix
>>> 3.9.  However, smartctl cannot enable SMART.
>>
>>
>> Is the electrical interface of the disk damaged?
>>
>>> Device Model:     Maxtor 6Y060L0
>>
>>
>>> Error SMART Enable failed: Input/output error
>>> Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.
>>
>>
>> Run Maxtor's disk check utility, if that finds a problem you have reason
>> for a warranty replacement.
>>
>> Put the disk into another computer, to rule out that it's the computer
>> side which is damaged. Or temporarily replace the trouble disk with a
>> known good one (same cable conector!).
>