gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools

Question for smartmontool users (OFFLINEtesting)..

Justin Piszcz — 2008-11-19T18:27:29

How often do you run offline tests and how much time do you allocate for them? Total time to complete Offline data collection: (4800) seconds How do you fit offline schedules into your short/long schedules, is it best to run them directly after a long test? Does anyone have a link to in-depth documentation on offline testing? Justin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

state persistence mode

Florian Effenberger — 2008-11-18T15:31:41

Hello, I'm running smartd with the setting of DEVICESCAN -a -d sat -m root -n standby,q -M daily \ -W 0,0,40 -S on -o on -I 194 -I 231 -I 9 -s \ (S/../../(1|2|3|4|5|6)/05|C/../../7/05|L/../../7/10|O/../../7/15) so long-time scans are run on Sunday. Unfortunately, this machine isn't online 24x7, so sometimes it doesn't run at the planned test time. The manpage of smartd talks about a "state persistence mode" I could use for this case. I searched for more information, but to no avail. What can I do to get my scans done if the machine isn't online at the specified test time? Something like anacron, but only for smartmontools? :-) Thanks, Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

a temperature conversion question

Alfred Ganz — 2008-11-16T02:27:16

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am using smartd amd smartctl (from smartmontools-5.38-4.1 under Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5) on a Maxtor OneTouch USB disk (Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family) on which I have reported a problem with SMART STATUS reporting (which is due to a problem with the handling of the status return length in usb-storage). Except for this, things work just fine. Note that I use the disk as backup, so it is only spun up while the backup is done. However, I have observed strange reporting of the RAW VALUE for "190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel". When I use smartctl, the RAW VALUE is the same as the one for "Temperature_Celsius", with a value around 40, but the log from smartd reports the 190 values significantly higher (somewhere around 60), and the 194 values the same as smartctl. I will append an example. It looks to me like the 190 RAW VALUES reported by smartctl may not be the VALUE field of the 190 line, whereas the 190 value reported by smartd seems to match that VALUE field. Q

Usb stick and SMART

Michal Hlavinka — 2008-11-15T11:34:26

Hi, I've got interesting report about usb stick SanDisk Cruzer 8GB which *seems* to support smart. Is it possible at all? AFAIK I've read something about usb sticks are forbidden to support this? For more information see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471235 Cheers, Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

Short Test Never Completes

Kevin Colbert — 2008-11-13T15:25:31

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smartmontools offline test aborts,other tools work

Ken Witherow — 2008-11-12T21:56:43

Linux 2.6.27, smartmontools 5.38 on AMD64 with MCP55 controller (sata_nv) It takes about 16 hours to do a short test with smartmontools, the long test aborts sometime after starting it. The last time it completed successfully with smartmontools was July 28 under 2.6.26 (I haven't had a chance to go back and test to see if older kernels fix it). However, the drive passes both types of tests with the seagate diagnostic tools in the expected time, both under DOS and in Linux. My other drives (IDE) successfully complete their tests with smartmontools still. hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 1060 MB in 2.00 seconds = 530.06 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 238 MB in 3.00 seconds = 79.31 MB/sec Seagate Seatools Enterprise version 2.54 (sg driver version = ) 1-800-SEAGATE www.seagate.com Copyright (c)2001, Peripheral Test Instruments, LLC (303)763-7488 www.scsitools.com Wed Nov 5 20:36:59 2008 Starting 10 % Generic Short Test on drive /dev/s

Anyone tell me..

Jon Hardcastle — 2008-11-12T15:43:57

What is wrong with this: DEVICESCAN -d sat -s (S/../.././06|L/../.././15) -m my< at >emailaddy.co.uk -W 2,40,45 -M test -o on -f -H -l selftest -l error -C 197 -U 198 the short test works ok, but the Long test never seeems to run.. originally i wanted this to run only on sunday but changed it to daily to test it... ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon< at >eHardcastle.com '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

Compilling smartmontools on FreeBSD

Сергей Казуров — 2008-11-12T14:57:25

Good day! I`m FreeBSD user (version - 6.2 release) and when i run command "make" i get following error: os_freebsd.o os_freebsd.cpp os_freebsd.cpp: In function `int highpoint_command_interface(int, smart_command_set, int, char*)': os_freebsd.cpp:279: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:461: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:564: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:601: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:851: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:934: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:1028: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:1046: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cpp:1122: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token os_freebsd.cp

Head_Flying_Hours FAILING_NOW

Marcelo Aguila — 2008-11-11T19:59:27

Hi, guys. Today I've got a window indicating a problem with Head_Flying_Hours. I'm running Suse 10.3 in a Dell Latitude D830. Searching in internet I found a page that sais this is a critical problem, but I'm not sure if this is true and if this problem has solution or maybe I should ask for replacement of my disk because I bought the laptop this year in april. Additionally the test shows problems with IDs 241 and 242. Any hint? Regards, Rm. Here is my smartctl -a /dev/sda output ----------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------ smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST9120823ASG Serial Number: 5NJ0TSTD Firmware Version: 3.ADD User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is:

Finding bad sector in a software RAID

Bruce Allen — 2008-11-11T07:16:48

Here is a nice description of tracking down an UNC sector on a Linux software RAID device. Apparently it was subsequently corrected by the RAID driver. http://www.roeckx.be/journal/Finding_which_sector_belongs_to_which_file_on_a_RAID_device_.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

Question with --offlineauto=on.

Justin Piszcz — 2008-11-10T23:40:09

There are only 13 results on the mailing list for information about offlineauto in reference to smartctl. Searching mail lists gives 13 results.. Do most people on this list utilize offlineauto on traditional SATA, whether it be non-enterprise OR enterprise disks? Do you find more frequent failures with offlineauto enabled or disabled? There is some various discussion but I do not see the pros/cons of enabling it vs. disabling it. I can tell when it is doing its scans, once every four hours, the disks are quite noisy :) But it does appear when system or user I/O takes hold, it appears to take priority over the 'background' offline scan. Does anyone have any metrics on having it off vs. on for SATA drives? I know more expensive 10k-15k RPM UltraSCSI/SAS disks will have automatic backround media scans etc but specifically for SATA, do most people on this list use this option, or? Justin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored b

ST650211CF Broken SMART?

Weedy — 2008-11-08T16:08:00

If I'm reading this right this drive should have burst into flames or something. So far I've had no trouble at all with it. So do I ignore SMART or junk it? # smartctl -d ata --all -T permissive /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST650211CF Serial Number: 3ME15JQ1 Firmware Version: 3.04 User Capacity: 5,000,970,240 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 1 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sat Nov 8 10:54:08 2008 EST SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater. We will try to proceed in spite of this. SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Devices [this device: Write-once (optical disk)] don't support ATA SMART SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF

Interpretation of the S.M.A.R.T. error log(smartctl -l error)

Jens Wolter — 2008-11-07T09:09:17

Hello list, when im downloading a big File (~700MB) to my only HD (/dev/sda, SATA2), or sometimes for no apparent reason at all, my system freezs. After i reboot i have those 2 Errors in my S.M.A.R.T. error log (with: smartctl -d ata -l error /dev/sda ): --------schnipp-------- Error 692 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3624 hours (151 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10 51 01 6e e2 42 e5 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 37 00 01 6e e2 42 e5 00 00:14:02.472 SET MAX ADDRESS EXT 27 00 00 6e e2 42 e0 00 00:14:02.472 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT 37 00 00 6e e2 42 e5 00 00:14:08.279 SET MAX ADDRESS EXT 27 00 01 6e e2 42 e0 00 00:14:08.220 READ NATIVE MAX

unstable arc1261 + smartmontools

Artem Bokhan — 2008-10-31T13:42:56

Smartd rarely reports errors on different disks Oct 31 14:32:40 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_01], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 15:32:41 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_01], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 16:32:40 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_01], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 16:32:41 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_02], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 17:32:40 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_01], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 17:32:41 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_05], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 18:02:41 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_07], failed to read SMART Attribute Data Oct 31 18:32:40 smartd[10038]: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_01], failed to read SMART Attribute Data __________ The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sg1 [areca_06], Read SMART Self-Test Log Failed For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). Y

DEVICESCAN with wildcards

Jon Hardcastle — 2008-10-30T13:05:06

Hey, I have a raid5 array with 5 active and 1 spare hard drives. I have noticed since I increased to this from 4 actives only that when a long test is happening on all the drives at once i get degradation when streaming.. I wonder if i can use wildcards in the DEVICESCAN to specify alternate days for long health tests etc? Thanks. ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon< at >eHardcastle.com '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

How to fix bad blocks on software RAID?

Kai Schaetzl — 2008-10-28T19:31:19

I have two Samsung HD502IJ disks in a software RAID 1 array on CentOS 5. There are two mirrored partitions (/dev/md0, /dev/md1) on each, a small one for the xen hypervisor system and a large one with the remainder of the disk that is managed by LVM to get a bunch of smaller partitions for xen guests. Both disks show one Offline_Uncorrectable error at different offsets. Earlier this month I started to get errors from md in the logs about attempts for reallocation which seemed to fail for the first tries and then succeed (I can make the logs available if somebody thinks it would help). Since then it happened three or four more times. RAID has been fine all the time and shows as clean. I checked with smartctl -a -d ata, output can be found here: http://winware.org/smart/raid-error.sda.txt http://winware.org/smart/raid-error.sdb.txt The short offline tests then found the Offline_Uncorrectable errors and I also started getting two pending sectors in sda in the smartd messages. However, these disappear

Inquiry: How to reliably get a SMART harddisk failure warning in a GUI system like MacOSX

Stefan Nowak — 2008-10-27T21:01:01

Hello SmartMonTool People! TARGET AUDIENCE: Those with Macintosh/Darwin knowledge. PREWORD: First I'd like to mention, that I extensively looked through the FAQ, searched through the mailinglist archive, and did not find anything related to my inquiry. Hence I decided to ask here. Please CC me in your answers, as I am not subscribed, and possibly integrate the answer to the inquiry to the manpage and respectively the online documentation, so that other MacOSX users also benefit from this. I offer to summarize that information, and possibly also put it to Mac-relevant pages (i.e macosxhints.com). Thanks for help already in advance! QUESTION: How do I have to setup my computer-environment, that I reliably get a warning, as soon as SMART detects a problem? Assumed that I am working in an OS which directly boots into a GUI, not showing me any CLI warnings while booting, and later on also works in a GUI. What's necessary that the warning _reliably_ comes to me as the MacOSX GUI user? Ple

smartd/smartctl offlining drives

Richard Scobie — 2008-10-28T03:37:19

I have 2 similarly specced machines with Fedora 9 installed using kernel 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64 and a 16 x SATA md RAID6 behind an LSISAS1068E SAS controller. Both are running a locally compiled version of Samba 3.0.29. If they are configured to start samba and smartd on boot, these two services are the last to start - samba directly followed by smartd. This results in the SAS controller progressively offlining each of the 16 drives in turn, as the SMART commands cause the controller to repeatedly reset each drive: Oct 25 12:39:13 storage smartd[3147]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened Oct 25 12:39:13 storage smartd[3147]: Device: /dev/sdc, not found in smartd database. Oct 25 12:39:19 storage kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff81022d0597c0) Oct 25 12:39:19 storage kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: ATA command pass through(16): 85 08 0e 00 d5 00 01 00 01 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 Oct 25 12:39:20 storage kernel: mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL}, Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000) Oc

Sata drive complains on schedules test.

Jon Hardcastle — 2008-10-28T08:53:01

I have noticed that it does appear (at least in the log entry) say that the test has run, but it will my dmesg buffer, messages log and emails me to say it has failed and cant run. Can someone please offer some advise? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

Looking for a direct contact at Smartmontools

Christian Mueller — 2008-10-24T22:05:14

Sata drive complains on schedules test.

Jon Hardcastle — 2008-10-23T11:09:35

Hi guys, I am having a problem with my scheduled tests. If the drive is asleep then smartd doesn't wait long enough for it to 'wake' before determining that the drive is smart incapble and emailing me a warning.. as per ' This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: localhost DNS domain: [Unknown] NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sdb, not capable of SMART self-check For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. Another email message will be sent in 1 days if the problem persists ' It also dumps loads of stuff to dmesg. I had 4 - now 6 drives in my array and i have some sort of check schedules daily. I'd like to either NOT test the drive if it is asleep or atleast have the test work! Any clues? ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon< at >eHardcastle.com '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' -