From: Christian S. <sk...@ar...> - 2010-05-31 20:08:37
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Hi, i have a strange problem with SMART Support. Occasionally SMART gets disabled on my drive. Running "smartctl --smart=on /dev/disk0" usually helps for a couple of minutes, but that's not working for smartd obviously. I tracked the problem down (or so I thought): whenever iStatMenus (tool to display various sensor data) reads the HardDrive Temperature SMART gets disabled. Occasionally the Problem still appears, even without any other SMART tools running. My questions: - is it possible to ask smartd to issue a "SMART Enable" Command before reading data? - is there any way to track down why I might be having that problem in the first place? Thanks, Christian ---------------- System: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio Blue Serial ATA family Device Model: WDC WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0 Serial Number: WD-WXNY08SW5636 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon May 31 21:47:25 2010 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Disabled A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. ----------------- smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-apple-darwin10.3.0] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio Blue Serial ATA family Device Model: WDC WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0 Serial Number: WD-WXNY08SW5636 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon May 31 22:06:00 2010 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION === SMART Enabled. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (13200) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 154) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. |
From: Tim S. <ti...@se...> - 2010-06-01 08:37:58
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On 31/05/10 21:08, Christian Schwang wrote: > Hi, > > i have a strange problem with SMART Support. Occasionally SMART gets > disabled on my drive. > > I tracked the problem down (or so I thought): > whenever iStatMenus (tool to display various sensor data) reads the > HardDrive Temperature SMART gets disabled. > I think this has come up on the mailing list before, and it was a bug/feature in this tool, or possibly the library/API it's calling - it's enabling smart, reading some values, then disabling it again. Have a look through the list archives..... Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 |
From: Christian S. <sk...@ar...> - 2010-06-02 20:57:14
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On 2010-06-01 10:37:45 +0200, Tim Small <ti...@se...> said: > On 31/05/10 21:08, Christian Schwang wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i have a strange problem with SMART Support. Occasionally SMART gets >> disabled on my drive. >> > >> I tracked the problem down (or so I thought): >> whenever iStatMenus (tool to display various sensor data) reads the >> HardDrive Temperature SMART gets disabled. >> > > I think this has come up on the mailing list before, and it was a > bug/feature in this tool, or possibly the library/API it's calling - > it's enabling smart, reading some values, then disabling it again. > > Have a look through the list archives..... > > Tim. Thanks, I did not notice it while digging through the archives for the first time. For others with similar problems, here's a link to the gmane Archives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools/6537/ Unfortunately the newest version of their monitoring application seems to disable SMART even with "Disk temp monitoring" being inactive. -> I'll proably disable it for the time beeing. Thanks again for your support. Regards, Christian |