smartmontools on Bubba Two

dmpop · Post by **dmpop** » 17 Nov 2008, 11:59

Hello,

I installed smartmontools on my Bubba Two, but when I run the smartctl -i /dev/sda1 command, I get the message that the hard disk doesn't support SMART. Also, running the hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda1 command (to turn hard disk power management off) returns the following error: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error. Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Dmitri

carl · Post by **carl** » 17 Nov 2008, 12:40

Are you sure it's an partition that should be the parameter to the command, and not the whole hard drive? try /dev/sda instead?

/Carl

dmpop · Post by **dmpop** » 17 Nov 2008, 13:16

Hi Carl,

hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda gives the same error. The smartctl -i /dev/sda also returns the "device does not support SMART" message.

Kind regards,
Dmitri

Hape · Post by **Hape** » 17 Nov 2008, 15:24

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html

scroll halfway :

Smartmontools for FireWire, USB, and SATA disks/systems

...
In some cases smartmontools may need a hint in the form of a '-d sat' or '-d ata' option on the smartctl command line or in the /etc/smartd.conf file. There may be a hint to add one of those options in the log file when smartd is run as a daemon or on the command line with smartctl. The '-d ata' option means that even though the drive has a SCSI device name, treat it as an ATA disk. Unfortunately such an approach doesn't often work. The next paragraph has more information about '-d sat'.

You'd better start reading ;-)

rgds

dmpop · Post by **dmpop** » 17 Nov 2008, 18:43

Reading documentation, what a novel idea! I might try that. Anyway, thanks for the pointer.

Kind regards,
Dmitri