Re: Need help with smartctl output

[email protected] wrote:
> Dear readers,
>
> Checking a harddrive using smartctl -A /dev/sdX results in a nice table with id and attributes like so:
>
> === 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   077   063   044    Pre-fail  Always       -       56776869
>    3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
>
> However, on some servers I receive a completely different output using the same version of smartmontools. Below is an example:
>
> --
> smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> Vendor:               SEAGATE
> Product:              ST9300605SS
> Revision:             0002

This is a SCSI view of the drive emulated by some SCSI layer.

If the drive is behind a RAID controller, please see:
http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers

If  not, try "-d sat" or "-d ata" option.

Thanks,
Christian


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