The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The
disk /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI
disk.
The computer has Athlon64 X2 and it is running x86_64 SMP kernel. The
chipset is Nvidia CK804 and the sata_nv driver is used.
The following output from 'smartctl -a -r ioctl,1 /dev/sdb' tells the disk
details and shows where the regression is:
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smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-7 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
[inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 ]
scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
info=0x0 duration=0 milliseconds resid=0
status=0x0
[ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 00 ]
scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
info=0x0 duration=4 milliseconds resid=0
status=0x0
Detected SAT interface, switch to device type 'sat'
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE
[ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 00 ]
scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
info=0x0 duration=0 milliseconds resid=0
status=0x0
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE returned 0
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family
Device Model: ST3320620AS
Serial Number: 9QF22KAP
Firmware Version: 3.AAJ
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Jun 10 10:47:30 2007 EEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=SMART STATUS
[ata pass-through(16): 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 ]
scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
info=0x1 duration=44 milliseconds resid=0
status=2: [desc] sense_key=0 asc=0 ascq=0
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=SMART STATUS returned 0
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=SMART STATUS CHECK
[ata pass-through(16): 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 ]
scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
info=0x1 duration=44 milliseconds resid=0
status=2: [desc] sense_key=0 asc=0 ascq=0
Error SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Values from ATA status return descriptor are:
00 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50
REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=3 Command=SMART STATUS CHECK returned -1
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
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This is smartctl from cvs a few days ago but the smartctl shipping with
SuSE 10.2 fails in the same way.
I ran 'git bisect' and it suggests that the problem was introduced by
1e999736cafdffc374f22eed37b291129ef82e4e is first bad commit
commit 1e999736cafdffc374f22eed37b291129ef82e4e
Author: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Apr 11 00:23:13 2007 +0100
libata: HPA support
i.e., before 2.6.22-rc1. At this point I find best to leave the problem to
experts.
--
Kai
Kai Makisara wrote:
> The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The
> disk /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI
> disk.
Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl
for it to work with libata drives. Has this changed?
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
> Kai Makisara wrote:
>> The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The disk
>> /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI disk.
>
> Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl
> for it to work with libata drives. Has this changed?
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Wow, apparently it has, I just tried it here:
p34:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda | head -n 5
smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Raptor family
.. [snip] ..
p34:~# echo $?
0
p34:~#
Normally you always had to use the -d ata parameter.
Justin.