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ATA Errors - What to do about them?

NBeing — 2012-05-21T08:59:33

I recently fixed some bad blocks on my drives, but, also notice "X ATA Error" 
which I cannot seem to do anything with.

What should one do about "X ATA Error" messages? Does this mean I should replace 
the drive (even-though it says "Health: PASSED"?). Or they harmless (aka, 
ignore?). If they get too high I should change, what is too high?

I'll post my three logs here and maybe someone could tell me if the drives are 
still good. All say "Health: PASSED", and, no "FAILING NOW" in the "-A",
and pass the latest "long/short/conveyence" tests.

212 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/6VYA9Sij
2 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/xTyYZMK2
1 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/nTuJyLjP

Thanks


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ATA Errors - What to do with them?

NBeing — 2012-05-20T01:10:47

I recently fixed some bad blocks on my drives, but, also notice "X ATA Error" 
which I cannot seem to do anything with.

What should one do about "X ATA Error" messages? Does this mean I should replace 
the drive (even-though it says "Health: PASSED"?). Or they harmless (aka, 
ignore?). If they get too high I should change, what is too high?

I'll post my three logs here and maybe someone could tell me if the drives are 
still good. All say "Health: PASSED", and, no "FAILING NOW" in the "-A", and
pass the latest "long/short/conveyence" tests.

212 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/6VYA9Sij
2 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/xTyYZMK2
1 ATA Error: http://pastebin.com/nTuJyLjP

Thanks


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Re: Regarding smartctl attributes

Christian Franke — 2012-05-15T17:23:37

This is normal, see below.



This only modifies the name of attribute 200 printed by smartctl: 
Write_Error_Count instead of Multi_Zone_Error_Rate (the default). This 
has no effect if the device does not provide attribute 200.



Unlike other parts of SMART (logs, self-tests), the attributes are not 
(and never were) part of the ATA standards. Even the general attribute 
format (ID, VALUE, WORST, RAW) is removed from the standard since ATA-4 
(1998).

Attribute assignment and interpretation are vendor/device specific and 
undocumented in many cases.



If no documentation is available, the RAW value of attribute 1 is 
typically useless. The 48-bit field might encode several values, try -v 
1,hex48 to check.



AFAIK only a few (Crucial/Micron) SSDs have a write error rate 
attribute, see drivedb.h.



smartctl IMO provides human readable format as far as possible :-)
If the exact meaning of the RAW value is not known, there is nothing we 
could do.



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Regarding smartctl attributes

Honey S. — 2012-05-15T10:01:18

Hi all,

 

I need to display some S.M.A.R.T information in my application if a disk
read/write error occurs.

I just went through the smartctl attributes and found that raw read
error rate and write error

rate  looks fine. 

 

But when I run smartctl -a in my harddisk, write error rate attribute is
found to be 

missing. I just tested this with different harddisks. The number of
attributes display varies for 

each hard disks.

 

Also I tried running -v 200,writeerrorcount option. Yet I didn't find
the write error rate

Attribute.

 

I have the following queries: 

1.Could you please tell me the reason for the difference in attributes
number in different 

Hard disks? 

2.What details can be interpreted from

Raw read error rate? 

3. How write error rate can be obtained? 

4. How can I make these attribute information to a human readable
format?

 

5. Also please suggest me any other error information related to
read/write can be displayed in my GUI? 

 

Any help is truly appreciated.


Thanks in adv

Re: smartmontools support in QNX

Christian Franke — 2012-05-10T10:34:20

"some outputs", "the error message" ?
Please be more specific.



This may mean that module os_generic.o is used instead of os_qnxnto.o.

Please check the following two lines from the configuration summary 
printed by ./configure command:

host operating system: ... ?
...
OS specific modules: os_qnxnto.o ?


If os_generic.o appears above, try:

./configure --with-os-deps=os_qnxnto.o



The os_qnxnto.cpp module was contributed by user jhering in 2007. Only 
very few compilation related fixes were added since then. There is no 
active development for QNX.

Thanks,
Christian


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Re: smartmontools support in QNX

Honey S. — 2012-05-09T14:06:32

Hi all,

 

I was able to solve my build errors finally. I have successfully built
smartmontools now in QNX. I am now checking the utilities. Smartctl and
smartd.

I got some outputs when I execute smartctl. But when I execute with some
options, I got the error message. 

Also when I execute smartd, it is showing that smartd.conf doesn't
exists and smartmontools is not ported to QNX still. I want to know
about the exact current status of smartmontools support in QNX. 

 

Thanks,

Honey S

 

 

 

From: Honey S. 
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:31 AM
To: smartmontools-support< at >lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: 'Alex Samorukov'
Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] smartmontools support in QNX 

 

Hi all,

 

I am now following the link
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Developer_PortQNX
for getting smartmontools utility working in QNX.

But I failed even to build the prerequisite tools in QNX(as mentioned in
the link). Could you please either update the same wiki page with
download links and step

Re: smartmontools support in QNX

Honey S. — 2012-05-09T05:01:15

Hi all,

 

I am now following the link
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Developer_PortQNX
for getting smartmontools utility working in QNX.

But I failed even to build the prerequisite tools in QNX(as mentioned in
the link). Could you please either update the same wiki page with
download links and steps for building and installing those prerequisite
tools also in QNX or could you please provide guidance to me for the
same. I am now blocked in the issue.

The main issue is with installing automake utility.  Any help will be
appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Honey S

 

 

From: Alex Samorukov [mailto:ml< at >os2.kiev.ua] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 12:18 PM
To: Honey S.
Cc: smartmontools-support< at >lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] smartmontools support in QNX for
RAID controllers

 

On 05/02/2012 07:54 AM, Honey S. wrote: 

Hi all,

 

I am a newbie in QNX and also in smartmontools. I need to get some smart
information from disks behind RAID controller. Also I am using QNX
6

Add MSATA SSD OCZ-NOCTI

Uwe Bonnes — 2012-05-06T14:08:14

Hello,

my Thinkpad is equipped with a OCZ-NOCTI SSD in the MSATA bay. To get it
recognized by smartmontools, I had to add the line   "OCZ-NOCTI|" in
drivedb.h 

Find appended the patch to SVN-drivedb.h and a "smartctl -x" output of the
drive. 

Please let me know if you have further questions and include the change.

Thanks

Re: Windows event log error

Christian Franke — 2012-05-03T21:40:36

The LSI Windows driver does not support ATA SMART I/O-controls for this 
SAS controller, sorry.
This functionality is probably only implemented for the 3ware/LSI SATA 
RAID controllers.

Thanks,
Christian


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Re: Windows event log error

Tejas Natu — 2012-05-03T20:48:31

using SATA disks. Report attached.

-Tejas

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Christian Franke <
Christian.Franke< at >t-online.de> wrote:

smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (sf-win32-5.42-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

 \\.\PhysicalDrive0: successfully opened
  IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY returns:
    Vendor:   "LSI     "
    Product:  "9750-4i    DISK "
    Revision: "5.12"
    Removable: No
    BusType:   0x08
  SMART_GET_VERSION failed, Error=1
 [inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 ]
  Incoming data, len=36:
 00     00 00 05 12 33 00 00 02  4c 53 49 20 20 20 20 20
 10     39 37 35 30 2d 34 69 20  20 20 20 44 49 53 4b 20
 20     35 2e 31 32
Vendor:               LSI
Product:              9750-4i    DISK
Revision:             5.12
 [read capacity(10): 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]
  Incoming data, len=8:
 00     e8 d4 4f ff 00 00 02 00
User Capacity:        1,999,988,850,688 bytes [1.99 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes

Re: Windows event log error

Christian Franke — 2012-05-02T21:42:46

SAS disk or SATA disk?



Please provide output of

smartctl -i -r ioctl,2 /dev/sdx

as an attachment.



This uses tw_cli.exe to access devices.



The RAID volume is the only "disk" visible through Windows standard 
I/O-controls.

The physical disks should be returned by a 3ware specific devicescan 
function. This was implemented in driver for 3ware SATA controllers >= 
9500. It might not be implemented for 3ware SAS controllers.



I don't know.

Thanks,
Christian


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Re: smartmontools support in QNX for RAID controllers

Alex Samorukov — 2012-05-02T06:47:38

Hi, it depends on the type of your RAID controller and driver interface. 
Try to compile and run latest smartmontools to find if your disks are 
supported. Some drivers are also implementing pseudo-devices to access 
SMART data on array members.
Such footers is not a good idea for the public maillists.
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smartmontools support in QNX for RAIDcontrollers

Honey S. — 2012-05-02T05:54:47

Hi all,

 

I am a newbie in QNX and also in smartmontools. I need to get some smart
information from disks behind RAID controller. Also I am using QNX
6.5.0. In the supported platforms for RAID support, QNX is not seen. Is
there any development going on in this side? Does anybody do anything
with smartmontools with QNX. Please guide me.

 

Thanks,

Honey S

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Windows event log error

Tejas Natu — 2012-05-01T21:41:15

Hi,

smartctl causes 3ware/LSI 9750 driver to print an error in Windows 7 system
event log - "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort0."
This happens with smartctl -i /dev/sdx , -A /dev/sdx, -x /dev/sdx etc.
Interestingly, errors do not appear when using the alternate name
/dev/tw_cli/c0/p0.

The /dev/sdx in question is a "disk" obtained from --scan output and it is
actually a RAID volume, reported as a disk.
So my questions are -
1. Why does --scan return RAID volume instead of physical disks in the RAID
controller?
2. Why does smartctl cause 3ware to log an error message in the event log.

Thanks,
Tejas
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Prolific PL2507 USB Device

James Olson — 2012-04-27T00:39:19

Please move the Prolific PL2507 (0x067b:0x25070 USB Device from the Unsupported Devices section to the Supported Devices section of the Supported USB Devices page.  It uses the jmicron protocol and works with the "smartctl -d usbjmicron,0" command.   Note that you must supply the ,0 for the Port or you will get a failure with a  "No device connected" message.

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Re: Reporting working Automake version

Christian Franke — 2012-04-28T12:05:48

Thanks for the info. I added 1.11.3 to autogen.sh



The 64-bit Windows Version of smartmontools is still not widely tested. 
Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks,
Christian


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Reporting working Automake version

Richard Flint — 2012-04-28T11:05:03

Hi Guys,

Just updated my build machine to the new Ubuntu release 12.04 LTS and saw
this message when I compiled:

"Note: GNU Automake version 1.11.3 was not tested by the developers.
Please report success/failure to the smartmontools-support mailing list."

Pleased to say, it works perfectly. For reference my cross compiler setup
is configured as follows:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
smartmontools-5.43 configuration:
host operating system: x86_64-pc-mingw32
C++ compiler: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++
C compiler: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
preprocessor flags:
C++ compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall -W
C compiler flags: -g -O2
linker flags: -Wl,--export-all-symbols,--dynamicbase,--nxcompat
-static-libgcc
OS specific modules: os_win32.o
resource compiler:
message compiler:
NSIS compiler:
drive database file: EXEDIR/drivedb.h
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kind Regards,
R
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SCSI self-test is not performed

Javier Godoy — 2012-04-23T07:10:05

Hello, I've tried to perform a self-test("smartctl -t offline" "smartctl -t 
short" and "smartctl -t long"), but in every case the following CDB was 
produced:

Opcode: Send Diagnostic (0x1d)
000. .... = Self-Test Code:  (0x00)
...0 .... = PF: Standard Page Format
.... .0.. = Self Test: False
.... ..0. = Device Offline: False
.... ...0 = Unit Offline: False
Parameter Length: 0


non-zero value in cdb[1], but that is not what I observed in the wire. Other 
commands such as "smartctl -i" work fine.

I'm using smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-w64-mingw32-xp-sp2] 
(sf-win32-5.42-1) on Windows XP SP3 against an iSCSI target.


Any hint would be appreciated.

Best Regards

Javier 


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200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate FAILING_NOW 4340

BitBucket — 2012-04-15T05:11:50

Hi folks:

Got a multi zone error rate failing notice.  But LBA is clearly erroneous.
How to interpret this?  

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   038   155   051    Pre-fail  Offline
FAILING_NOW 4340

Drive otherwise has good numbers (but is warranty replacement drive)

What do about it? Can it be cleared somehow, if the drive is OK?

Smartmontools, Solaris 10 HP P400 CPQARY3

James — 2012-04-08T10:39:26

Hi, I am trying to no avail to get smartmontools working on Nexentastore 
(based on Solaris 10) the drives are all connected to a HP P400 
controller which uses the cpqary driver, all drives are configured as 
RAIDZ logicaldrives.

I have installed the cpqary3 2.4.6 driver and smartmon tools 2.42, I 
know the disks support SMART as when they are plugged into a desktop 
computer the SMART info can be retrieved.
I've tried various different commands to no avail, any help would be 
much appreciated.

root< at >nas:/volumes# smartctl -a /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 --device=scsi -s on 
--tolerance=verypermissive
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i386-pc-solaris2.10] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Vendor:               HP
Product:              LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision:             7.22
User Capacity:        500,074,307,584 bytes [500 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x600508b100104a39535531355a41000d
Serial number:        PA2240J9SU15ZA
Device type

Smartmontools, Solaris 10 CPQARY3

James — 2012-04-08T10:36:45

Hi, I am trying to no avail to get smartmontools working on Nexentastore 
(based on Solaris 10) the drives are all connected to a HP P400 
controller which uses the cpqary driver, all drives are configured as 
RAIDZ logicaldrives.

I have installed the cpqary3 2.4.6 driver and smartmon tools 2.42, I 
know the disks support SMART as when they are plugged into a desktop 
computer the SMART info can be retrieved.
I've tried various different commands to no avail, any help would be 
much appreciated.

root< at >nas:/volumes# smartctl -a /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 --device=scsi -s on 
--tolerance=verypermissive
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i386-pc-solaris2.10] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Vendor:               HP
Product:              LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision:             7.22
User Capacity:        500,074,307,584 bytes [500 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x600508b100104a39535531355a41000d
Serial number:        PA2240J9SU15ZA
Device type