[CentOS] SMART for SATA devices ?

Kari Salovaara kari.salovaara at pp1.inet.fi
Thu Mar 16 21:59:18 UTC 2006


Ken Key wrote:
> 
> [sorry to jump into this late - I'm on the digest and am behind
> in my reading.  I did not see an answer in later digests yet ]
> 
> FYI, you can use the '-d ata' option to smartctl to talk to your
> SATA devices with the -34 kernel.  I've been doing this with a 2.6.15.4
> kernel, but back-reved to 2.6.9-34 to test this and was successful.
> So if you edit your /etc/smartd.conf, you can have a line like:
> 
> /dev/sda -d ata -H -m root at localhost.localdomain
> 
> and you interactively do:
> 
>  smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
> 
> Regards,
> Ken Key

Thanks Ken,

it works nicely, see below. This is done by 4.2 with all updated new 
machine.

/usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb output is :

smartctl version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     SAMSUNG SP2504C
Serial Number:    S09QJ1GA102663
Firmware Version: VT100-33
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a
Local Time is:    Thu Mar 16 23:50:04 2006 EET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x84) Offline data collection activity
                                         was suspended by an 
interrupting command from host.
                                         Auto Offline Data Collection: 
Enabled.
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:                 (4929) 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.
                                         General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  82) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE 
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       7
   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   025    Pre-fail 
Always       -       6016
   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       45
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   253   253   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0025   253   253   015    Pre-fail 
Offline      -       0
   9 Power_On_Half_Minutes   0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age 
Always       -       1h+27m
  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   253   253   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012   253   002   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       35
190 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   142   118   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       32
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   142   118   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       32
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       4958687
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   253   253   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   253   253   000    Old_age 
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   253   253   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0
202 TA_Increase_Count       0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data 
structure revision number = 1
  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
     1        0        0  Not_testing
     2        0        0  Not_testing
     3        0        0  Not_testing
     4        0        0  Not_testing
     5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
   After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.


Best regards,
Kari

-- 
Kari Salovaara
Hanko, Finland



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