[ale] What to do about non-cooperative SMARTD drive?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 21:56:58 EST 2014


That is rather concerning. Can the drive be readily replaced? Have you run
a smartd test? Not all drives with the capability are actually configured
to measure and record smartd data.
On Nov 16, 2014 9:05 PM, "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

>  So, a Dell Optiplex 740 has a Samsung Spinpoint F3 disk (HD754JJ) which
> has been working ok for several years.
>
> Over the last year, it has griped on startup about the SMARTD status, and
> she has to poke F1 to boot.
>
> OK, this past week it gave us a scare, and so I leaped into action.  (ok,
> I strolled into action...)
>
> Trying to look at it with smartctl gives one pause...   It just doesn't
> want to support much of the SMARTD protocol beyond name, rank and serial
> number.    This is a fairly modern drive.   I've used smartctl on much
> older drives and had it cooperate.   Been able to do short and long self
> tests.  I'm getting no cooperation from this drive at all.
>
> I'm wondering if I should replace this while it's still running.   It's
> running, and I must admit I didn't do the smartd checking when my wife
> bought this a couple years ago.
>
>
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
>
>
> smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (sf-6.3-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint F3
> Device Model:     SAMSUNG HD754JJ
> Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
> Firmware Version: 1AJ1
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   [No Information Found]
> Local Time is:    Sun Nov 16 20:52:11 2014 EST
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
>                   Enabled status cached by OS, trying SMART RETURN STATUS
> cmd.
> SMART support is: Enabled
> AAM feature is:   Unavailable
> APM feature is:   Unavailable
> Rd look-ahead is: Unavailable
> Write cache is:   Unavailable
> ATA Security is:  Unavailable
> Wt Cache Reorder: Unavailable
>
> Read SMART Thresholds failed: Function not implemented
>
> === 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: ( 6840) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
> Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
> Suspend Offline collection upon new
> command.
> Offline surface scan supported.
> Self-test supported.
> No 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.
> No General Purpose Logging support.
> Short self-test routine
> recommended polling time: (   2) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time: ( 114) minutes.
>
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     POSR-K   001   001   ---    -    199753
>   2 Throughput_Performance  -OS--K   252   252   ---    -    0
>   3 Spin_Up_Time            PO---K   074   070   ---    -    8162
>   4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--CK   100   100   ---    -    354
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   252   252   ---    -    0
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         -OSR-K   252   252   ---    -    0
>   8 Seek_Time_Performance   --S--K   252   252   ---    -    0
>   9 Power_On_Hours          -O--CK   100   100   ---    -    11987
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count        -O--CK   252   252   ---    -    0
> 11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK   252   252   ---    -    0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   100   100   ---    -    357
> 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      -O---K   252   252   ---    -    0
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O---K   252   252   ---    -    0
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     -O----   064   061   ---    -    35 (Min/Max
> 14/39)
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  -O-RCK   100   100   ---    -    0
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK   252   252   ---    -    0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--CK   100   099   ---    -    60
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ----CK   252   252   ---    -    0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -OS-CK   100   100   ---    -    49
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   -O-R-K   100   100   ---    -    0
> 223 Load_Retry_Count        -O--CK   252   252   ---    -    0
> 225 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--CK   100   100   ---    -    357
>                             ||||||_ K auto-keep
>                             |||||__ C event count
>                             ||||___ R error rate
>                             |||____ S speed/performance
>                             ||_____ O updated online
>                             |______ P prefailure warning
>
> Read SMART Log Directory failed: Function not implemented
>
> ATA_READ_LOG_EXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: Function not
> implemented
> Read GP Log Directory failed
>
> SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported
>
> Read SMART Error Log failed: Function not implemented
>
> SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported
>
> Read SMART Self-test Log failed: Function not implemented
>
> Read SMART Selective Self-test Log failed: Function not implemented
>
> SCT Commands not supported
>
> Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04) not supported
>
> SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) not supported
>
>
>
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