May 22, 201115 yr Ok. So I started Preclear on 4 of my 5 drives. The fifth drive states the following error: 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/ Register values return from SMART Status command are: ST =0x40 ERR=0x00 NS =0x04 SC =0xf0 CL =0x5f CH =0x70 SEL=0x40 A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.$ Do you wish to continue? (Answer Yes to continue. Capital 'Y', lower case 'es'): Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: This is the only drive on my SFF-8087 controller cards. The other 4 drives on attached directly to my mobo.
May 22, 201115 yr Try re-seating the SATA cable first. Then run a SMART report and post the results here.
May 22, 201115 yr Author I have checked the cable connections. What is the command to run a SMART report?
May 22, 201115 yr Silicon image controller? Does it do the same thing every time? I've seen sil cards cause that once and then work fine.
May 22, 201115 yr I have checked the cable connections. What is the command to run a SMART report? smartctl -a /dev/sdx where sdx is the offending drive
May 22, 201115 yr Author Silicon image controller? Does it do the same thing every time? I've seen sil cards cause that once and then work fine. I have tried it 3 times and the same result happens.
May 22, 201115 yr Author I have checked the cable connections. What is the command to run a SMART report? smartctl -a /dev/sdx where sdx is the offending drive That command returned: SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
May 23, 201115 yr I'm in the same boat. I precleared a Hitachi drive today and it went fine. Not I'm trying to preclear a Samsung drive in the same bay and get the same error as the OP.
May 23, 201115 yr Author I got the SMART test running. smartctl -tlong /dev/sdb 208 Minutes later and we'll be done.
May 23, 201115 yr I just used the -D option on preclear and let it run anyway. It appears to be going. Weird thing was that it said there was a FAT16 partition on the disk. I have never seen that before. It was supposed to be a new Samsung F4EG from New Egg. I did reflash it with JP1 firmware, so maybe that created a FAT16 partition. I was using 1.11 of preclear.
May 23, 201115 yr Author I decided to run the short test first. smartctl -tshort /dev/sdb 2 Minutes later and we'll be done.
May 23, 201115 yr Author The short smartctl test completed without error. I will go ahead and start the long test now.
May 23, 201115 yr Author The long test completed without error. As PeterB said it here I went ahead and started the preclear anyways as it was a compatibility issue. There appears to be some incompatibility between some HBAs (LSI SAS2008-based?) and the method which preclear and unMENU use to obtain SMART data and temperatures. Simple smartctl commands, from the command line, appear to work okay. Hopefully, Joe will be able to address this problem soon. In the meantime we just have to live with it - the preclear will still work, but you don't get any SMART reports.
May 23, 201115 yr As PeterB said it here I went ahead and started the preclear anyways as it was a compatibility issue. ... and as I've posted in another thread, I discovered that preclear has its own option to eliminate the problem: run the preclear with the '-D' option (eg 'preclear_disk.sh -D /dev/sdx'), and all will be well.
May 23, 201115 yr Author AHH. What does the -D option do exactly? How would I incorporate the -A option for starting at 64? I did not do the -D option, will this be a problem? So far so good w/ just /boot/preclear_disk.sh -A /dev/sdb
May 23, 201115 yr AHH. What does the -D option do exactly? How would I incorporate the -A option for starting at 64? one after the other (i.e. preclear_disk.sh -A -D /dev/sdX)
May 24, 201115 yr AHH. What does the -D option do exactly? The '-D' supresses the use of the '-d ata' on all the smartctl commands which preclear issues. I did not do the -D option, will this be a problem? So far so good w/ just /boot/preclear_disk.sh -A /dev/sdb At best, you will simply get error messages everytime preclear issues a smartctl command. At worst, you won't get any SMART data reported. However, the disk will still be cleared perfectly well.
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