Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-06 Thread William Kenworthy

See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable

BillK


On 7/5/24 09:00, Dale wrote:

Howdy,

I ordered another hard drive, yup, I keep filling them up.  Anyway, it
looks like a shucked drive but may not be.  I tried to find out if there
is a way to know if a drive has that pin 3 problem or not but no luck.
It did power up after I hooked it to a old system with a molex to sata
power adapter.  Then the SMART tests went wonky, bad wonky.  This is
what it showed.


NAS2 ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.8.7-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST16000NM000D
Serial Number:    ZVTC8V09
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e79eb73e
Firmware Version: SN03
User Capacity:    16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB]
Sector Size:  512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Device is:    Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Mon May  6 15:51:00 2024 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error device not ready

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error device not ready

Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error device not ready

Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error device not ready

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

NAS2 ~ #


Does anyone know what it looks like when a drive has that PWDIS feature
and the drive is disabled?  Does it look like that?  The drive would not
power up at all on my main rig or my NAS box but with the molex to sata
cable on the old Dell Inspiron, NAS@ box, it did power up but was really
slow to be seen and SMART shows the above.  Either way, PWDIS feature or
just a DOA drive, it won't work in my main rig which is where I want it
to go.  I requested a refund.  I'll buy one I can do more research on
next time.

I'm mostly just curious on this.  I've never actually had a drive with
the PWDIS pin.  Other than I've read they don't power up at all, I have
no idea how they respond or if they respond at all.  I figure someone on
the list has seen one.  If this is how they behave, I'll know next
time.  If they just off period, then a bad drive.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)







[gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-06 Thread Dale
Howdy,

I ordered another hard drive, yup, I keep filling them up.  Anyway, it
looks like a shucked drive but may not be.  I tried to find out if there
is a way to know if a drive has that pin 3 problem or not but no luck. 
It did power up after I hooked it to a old system with a molex to sata
power adapter.  Then the SMART tests went wonky, bad wonky.  This is
what it showed. 


NAS2 ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.8.7-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST16000NM000D
Serial Number:    ZVTC8V09
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e79eb73e
Firmware Version: SN03
User Capacity:    16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB]
Sector Size:  512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Device is:    Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Mon May  6 15:51:00 2024 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error device not ready

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error device not ready

Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error device not ready

Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error device not ready

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

NAS2 ~ #


Does anyone know what it looks like when a drive has that PWDIS feature
and the drive is disabled?  Does it look like that?  The drive would not
power up at all on my main rig or my NAS box but with the molex to sata
cable on the old Dell Inspiron, NAS@ box, it did power up but was really
slow to be seen and SMART shows the above.  Either way, PWDIS feature or
just a DOA drive, it won't work in my main rig which is where I want it
to go.  I requested a refund.  I'll buy one I can do more research on
next time. 

I'm mostly just curious on this.  I've never actually had a drive with
the PWDIS pin.  Other than I've read they don't power up at all, I have
no idea how they respond or if they respond at all.  I figure someone on
the list has seen one.  If this is how they behave, I'll know next
time.  If they just off period, then a bad drive.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)