On 08/08/2020 23.10, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 08/08/2020 15.47, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 08/08/2020 07.49, David Haller wrote:
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It is some problem with smartd, and I had it for years. Since I bought some disks it doesn't like. Then, one year the software gets an update and one disk that failed then works. It is a software problem in the daemon.
I'm testing now:
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 -s on -d removable -d sat,12 -T permissive -a -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 -d removable -d sat,16 -T permissive -T permissive -T permissive -T permissive -a -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)
I tried "verypermissive", which is listed in the man page, but it complains:
Aug 08 23:06:12 Isengard smartd[13611]: File /etc/smartd.conf line 137 (drive /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0): Invalid argument to -T Directive: verypermissive
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 -s on -d removable -d sat,12 -T permissive -a -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 -d removable -d sat,16 -T permissive -T permissive -T permissive -T permissive -a -s (S/../.././02|L/
grep My_Book /var/log/messages | less
<3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:24.362845+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - File /etc/smartd.conf line 129 (drive /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0): warning, character 1 (o) looks odd in extended regular expression on <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:24.363748+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - File /etc/smartd.conf line 129 (drive /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0): ignoring previous Test Directive -s on <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.261652+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], opened <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.262178+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], WDC WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0, S/N:2TKST2SD, WWN:5-..., FW:83.H0A83, 8.00 TB <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.274823+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], found in smartd database: WDC HGST Ultrastar He10 <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.300774+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.302176+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], state read from /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD80EZAZ....ata.state <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.303004+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], opened <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.303840+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], WDC WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0, S/N:7HKSUKBJ, WWN:5-..., FW:83.H0A83, 8.00 TB <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.316372+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], found in smartd database: WDC HGST Ultrastar He10 <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.336885+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.338318+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], state read from /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD8...BJ.ata.state <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.960333+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD...SD.ata.state <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:08:25.961091+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD8...BJ.ata.state <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:38:33.780662+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check <3.2> 2020-08-08T23:38:35.730568+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], failed to read SMART Attribute Data <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:38:37.680316+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], Read SMART Self Test Log Failed <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:38:46.498530+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check <3.2> 2020-08-08T23:38:48.448248+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], failed to read SMART Attribute Data <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:38:50.398066+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], Read SMART Self Test Log Failed <3.6> 2020-08-08T23:38:52.347999+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], Read Summary SMART Error Log failed <3.6> 2020-08-09T00:08:25.991349+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 132 to 130 <3.6> 2020-08-09T00:08:26.952448+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 144 to 151 <3.6> 2020-08-09T00:38:33.558901+02:00 Isengard smartd 13663 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check
As you can see, both disks fail. They can't be both "borked". Then sometimes it logs temperature change. The problem is smartd itself. smartctl copes fine.