[opensuse] smartctl usage & GSmartControl
Prompted by recent discussions about SSD vs HDD I decided to check out my devices with smartctl. But I'm overwhelmed by the smartctl man page! My main disk - sda - is reported to be fine :) My backup disk - sdb - is not found # smartctl -P show /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.12.14-lp150.12.7-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x4971:0xce23 (0x000)] Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary So I tried telling it that the disk is SATA and with that it can find it: # smartctl -P show -d sat /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.12.14-lp150.12.7-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Drive found in smartmontools Database. Drive identity strings: MODEL: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 FIRMWARE: JP4OA3EA match smartmontools Drive Database entry: MODEL REGEXP: (Hitachi )?HDS7210((16|25)CLA[36]82|(32|50)CLA[36]62|(64|75|10)CLA[36]3[02]) FIRMWARE REGEXP: .* MODEL FAMILY: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS: None preset; no -v options are required. but how do I get it to actually scan it regularly like my main disk? I installed GSmartControl in the hope it would be simpler to use. But the Help/Help button does nothing, and for my backup disk it says: Drive information: /dev/sdb (scsi), 1.00 TB, HDS721010CLA332 Basic health check: Unknown Model family: Unknown and the checkboxes to Enable SMART and to Enable Offline Data Collection are both greyed out. So how come it doesn't seem to be able to access the same data as smartctl? Does anybody use it, or is it really as useless as it seems? YaST Partitioner can see it without me having to do anything special, why can't smart? Similar questions also apply to an SD card I happen to have plugged in at the moment! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Dave Howorth wrote:
but how do I get it to actually scan it regularly like my main disk?
same as with your main disk - /etc/smartd.conf for instance: DEVICESCAN -m daves@email -d sat -n standby -a -s (S/../../[123456]/02 L/../../7/02)
YaST Partitioner can see it without me having to do anything special, why can't smart?
They need access to different things. YaST just looks at a disk, smartctl goes a little further. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 22/10/2019 14.16, Dave Howorth wrote:
Prompted by recent discussions about SSD vs HDD I decided to check out my devices with smartctl. But I'm overwhelmed by the smartctl man page!
My main disk - sda - is reported to be fine :)
Now you have to test them. First the short test, wait the specified time, ask for the results, analyze them. Then repeat with the long test.
My backup disk - sdb - is not found
# smartctl -P show /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.12.14-lp150.12.7-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x4971:0xce23 (0x000)] Please specify device type with the -d option.
It is found, but it doesn't know how to access it.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
So I tried telling it that the disk is SATA and with that it can find it:
# smartctl -P show -d sat /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.12.14-lp150.12.7-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Drive found in smartmontools Database. Drive identity strings: MODEL: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 FIRMWARE: JP4OA3EA match smartmontools Drive Database entry: MODEL REGEXP: (Hitachi )?HDS7210((16|25)CLA[36]82|(32|50)CLA[36]62|(64|75|10)CLA[36]3[02]) FIRMWARE REGEXP: .* MODEL FAMILY: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS: None preset; no -v options are required.
but how do I get it to actually scan it regularly like my main disk?
Same as the others, adding the -d sat parameter.
I installed GSmartControl in the hope it would be simpler to use.
I'm not familiar with it. I use the daemon. You edit "/etc/smartd.conf" For example, sda could have an entry such as - notice: as you seem to have disks on USB, do not use /dev/sdb denominations: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000... -a -o on -S on -s \ (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m root@telcontar.valinor (do the short test every day at 02:xx, and the long test Saturdays at 03:xx; mail errors to root@telcontar.valinor) And the problematic USB disk something like: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 \ -d sat,16 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) \ -m root@telcontar.valinor but it fails I don't remember why.
/var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T01:59:51.969880+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 154 to 147 /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T02:29:59.390740+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.2> 2019-03-25T02:30:01.340565+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], failed to read SMART Attribute Data /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T02:30:04.899351+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], starting scheduled Short Self-Test. /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T02:59:52.246052+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], read SMART Attribute Data worked again, warning condition reset after 1 email /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T02:59:52.246510+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], previous self-test completed without error /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T03:59:58.855623+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.2> 2019-03-25T04:00:00.806086+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], failed to read SMART Attribute Data /var/log/messages-20190414.xz:<3.6> 2019-03-25T04:07:34.692918+01:00 Isengard smartd 976 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD80EZAZ_11TDBA0-2TKST2SD.ata.state
Maybe yours work. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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