I remember trying 'smartmontools-5.37' a couple of years ago (snv_70) and not having any success with it.
Following a recent report, from 'Tonmaus', of success, I decided to try again. And yes, it does now seem to work, with 'smartmontools-5.39.1' and snv_132. Maybe in the past, I did not try the correct combination of options. Or maybe a recent putback has made the difference: 6398342 "SATA Framework should support ATA PASS THROUGH command" http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6398342 http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/rev/5e56af24ae09 The secret for success seems to be to use the option '-d sat,12' to specify the "SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) Layer (SATL)" and to use the 12 byte variant, rather than the default 16 byte. Also, be sure to specify the drives with '/dev/rdsk/..'. Note that the pci-ide cmdk driver is still not supported. But when using SATA drives and the 'ahci' driver everything seems to work fine, in my home system at least. This is excellent news. I've used smartmontools on my Linux & Windows systems for many year, and have found it most useful for spotting drives that are about to fail. I can now monitor the temperature of my SATA drives, and note any increase in re-allocated sectors, etc. Below is some sample output from 'smartctl' from my "home" system. Bets Regards Nigel Smith # ./smartctl -d sat,12 -i /dev/rdsk/c4t5d0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family Device Model: ST3750840AS Serial Number: 5QD2S1TJ Firmware Version: 3.AAK User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon Feb 22 20:17:32 2010 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # ./smartctl -d sat,12 -t short /dev/rdsk/c4t5d0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Mon Feb 22 20:18:56 2010 Use smartctl -X to abort test. # ./smartctl -d sat,12 -l selftest /dev/rdsk/c4t5d0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7670 - # ./smartctl -d sat,12 -A /dev/rdsk/c4t5d0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 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 104 096 006 Pre-fail Always - 7038433 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 093 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 35 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 4 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 085 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 338522190 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 7670 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 35 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 056 047 045 Old_age Always - 44 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/44) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 053 000 Old_age Always - 44 (0 18 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 062 057 000 Old_age Always - 54582891 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
