The same here with Feisty 2.6.20-16-generic, also tried the previous kernel 2.6.20-15-generic smartmontools do not work.
Also tried to upgrade smartmontools to 5.37 (used the *.deb package from sourceforge and confirmed that filenames and places where they go are identical to the official 5.36 coming with Ubuntu) -> does nort work: ------------ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda Password: ***** smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family Device Model: ST3320620AS Serial Number: 9QF22C7X Firmware Version: 3.AAJ User Capacity: 320.072.933.376 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: Wed Aug 8 16:11:51 2007 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Error SMART Status command failed Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Values from ATA status return descriptor are: 00 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. -------------------- The really annoying thing is that my 'old' openSUSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5) works perfectly. Se a sample outputs on the very same hardware here: -------- Capabilities: pp:/home/ingo # smartctl -c /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. 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: ( 430) 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: ( 115) minutes. ----------- or the reading of the attributes also works fine: ------------ pp:/home/ingo # smartctl -A /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is 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 114 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 66008891 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 184 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 074 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 28829419 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1415 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 194 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 060 058 045 Old_age Always - 672727080 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 040 042 000 Old_age Always - 40 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/19) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 068 065 000 Old_age Always - 12537415 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 - 1 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 --------- Hardware here is ASUS M2N-E with nVidia nForce 570-Ultra sATA controller and attached Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 series sATA HD. After all I have to conclude that it must be the Feisty kernel causing that failure. -- smartmontools/smartctl does not work on SATA drives on Linux Kernel 2.6.20-15.27 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106821 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
