Topic: Disc Type, Age & Uptime

[gbentley]

Hi,

Have been wrestling with Smartctl which refuses to give me any useful info on the 2 installed SATA HDD

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smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed: Invalid argument
if I use

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smartctl -d ata --all /dev/sda -T permissive

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     [No Information Found]
Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   [No Information Found]
ATA Standard is:  [No Information Found]
Local Time is:    Thu Sep 29 13:01:09 2016 BST
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is enabled.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.


Is there any other way to get the info I want or to update the Smartctl DB?

[gbentley]

Found via search

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/usr/sbin/# ./update-smart-drivedb
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h.error: rejected by /usr/sbin/smartctl, probably no longer compatible

Any tips?

[guest22]

I believe there is a contrib for that...

[CharlieBrady]

Have been wrestling with Smartctl which refuses to give me any useful info on the 2 installed SATA HDD

Do you know what they are? Do they support SMART? What does 'hdparm -I'  tell you?

[CharlieBrady]

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49139

...
A quick workaround to update your smart database is to edit line 46 in update-smart-drivedb (#nano /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb)
and replace the line/url with:

SRCEXPR='http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/$location/smartmontools/drivedb.h?format=raw'
...

[gbentley]

Tried edit update as above then got;

[root@mail sbin]# ./update-smart-drivedb
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h.error: rejected by /usr/sbin/smartctl, probably no longer compatible

then;

[root@mail sbin]# hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument

and

[root@mail sbin]# hdparm /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 30394/255/63, sectors = 488281250, start = 0


Thanks