Hi, I have an HDD that I want to sell so I want to run hdparm (it's called HDDErase in parted magic) using parted magic's live CD to completely wipe data and put it at factory settings. The thing is, hdparm wouldn't work without SMART enabled, and I also want to see the health of the disk before selling it, so I can't see it without SMART.

 

I have 3 other HDD's and they all show me the health data so SMART is enabled in the BIOS I assume. I use windows and CrystalDiskInfo program shows me how all disks have SMART and show all the health reports except my 500 GB Seagate drive. Specifically the drive is this:

 

SAMSUNG HD501LG 500,1 GB

FIRMWARE: CR100-11

SUPPORTED CHARACTERISTICS: S.M.A.R.T., AAM, NCQ

 

In parted magic live CD, when I try to enable smart, it gives me this error: ""A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options."

 

I don't know what to do because I don't know how to use the linux terminal.

 

Please help me enable SMART on my disk, thanks.

Edited January 19, 20188 yr by noobman

And this is someway related to unRAID? You could at least use the lounge forum.

 

Anyway to enable SMART you just type:

 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdX 

 

Or whatever the device is, if that isn't working you have other problems, likely with the disk.

 

 

7 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

And this is someway related to unRAID? You could at least use the lounge forum.

Moved there.

 

Note that the OP just joined, this is their only post, and they may be totally uninterested in unRAID.

Sorry, I didnt know this was the wrong forum

 

 

33 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

And this is someway related to unRAID? You could at least use the lounge forum.

 

Anyway to enable SMART you just type:

 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdX 

 

Or whatever the device is, if that isn't working you have other problems, likely with the disk.

 

 

This is what the parted magic does when you click "enable smart" in the GUI, but then I get that error I posted.

Edited January 19, 20188 yr by noobman

Likely a problem with the disk then.

6 minutes ago, noobman said:

Sorry, I didnt know this was the wrong forum

This is what the parted magic does when you click "enable smart" in the GUI, but then I get that error I posted.

I see parted magic has a forum.

11 minutes ago, noobman said:

Sorry, I didnt know this was the wrong forum

 

 

This is what the parted magic does when you click "enable smart" in the GUI, but then I get that error I posted.

 

Hey Noobman -

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I am a moderator here and don't work for LimeTech or benefit in any way if you try it or buy it. But this community is built of people like you that stumbled upon the forum and decided they liked what they saw.

 

- SSD

 

Well, i have a similar problem. unRAID dosn´t show SMART attributes for Disk 1. I try 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdX

 but that dosn´t solve my problem. 

Typing smartctl --all /dev/sdc in a terminal  window show all SMART attributes, but the webUI dosn´t. Perhaps that is new since the update to 6.4. Any ideas how to show the SMART attributes in the webUI?

 

greetings 

Ronny

13 minutes ago, rl2664 said:

I try 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdX

 but that dosn´t solve my problem. 

 

I assume you mean you tried

 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdc

 

If yes, what the output of that?

 

Sorry, my english is bad.
The output was: SMART enabled.
I have only a two disk array. The smart attributes of the parity disk show up fine, disk 1 doesn't in the webui and the diagnostics. In the terminal window everything is fine and all smart attributes show correctly.
I know that everything works correct in the past, perhaps this problem appears with the update to 6.4, but I'm not sure. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5a63cc7d5d0a9/unraid-diagnostics-20180120-2354.zip

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9 hours ago, rl2664 said:

Sorry, my english is bad.
The output was: SMART enabled.
I have only a two disk array. The smart attributes of the parity disk show up fine, disk 1 doesn't in the webui and the diagnostics. In the terminal window everything is fine and all smart attributes show correctly.
I know that everything works correct in the past, perhaps this problem appears with the update to 6.4, but I'm not sure. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5a63cc7d5d0a9/unraid-diagnostics-20180120-2354.zip

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On the main page click on disk1, scroll down to SMART settings, check that "SMART notification value" is "Use default", if it isn't change it and click apply, if it's already that change to a different one, click apply, change back to default and click apply again.

Ok, that was way easier than I thought. Thanks a lot!

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