Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

[Christian Franke]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 17 21:39, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>     
>>> The drive is a Samsung 1614C which definitely supports SMART.  Oh well,
>>> so the answer is just "too bad", I assume...
>>>       
>> Yes.
>> The device driver is likely a SCSI miniport driver and does not 
>> implement SMART functions.
>> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#FAQ-win-ata-as-scsi
>> Try option "-r ioctl,2" for a more detailed diagnostic output.
>>     
>
> Done.  -r ioctl,2 /dev/hda returns:
>
>   REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=0 Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE
>     SMART_GET_VERSION failed, Error=1117
>   ATA/SATA driver is possibly a SCSI class driver not supporting SMART.
>   If this is a SCSI disk, try "scsi<adapter><id>".
>     IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH failed, Error=1
>       Input : CMD=0xec, FR=0x00, SC=0x01, NS=0x00, CL=0x00, CH=0x00, SEL=0x00
>     IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH failed, Error=1
>       Input : CMD=0xec, FR=0x00, SC=0x01, NS=0x00, CL=0x00, CH=0x00, SEL=0x00
>   REPORT-IOCTL: DeviceFD=0 Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE returned -1 errno=88
>   [Function not implemented]
>
>   

None of the three ATA ioctl calls work.


> ...
>
> The same on /dev/sda:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i -r ioctl,2 /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-cygwin-xp-sp2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
>    [inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 ]
>     Incoming data, len=36:
>    00     00 00 02 02 2c 00 00 13  41 54 49 20 20 20 20 20
>    10     31 2b 30 20 4a 42 4f 44  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
>    20     31 2e 31 30                                     
>   Device: ATI      1+0 JBOD         Version: 1.10
>    [mode sense: 1a 00 1c 00 40 00 ]
>     IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT failed, Error=87
>    [inquiry: 12 01 80 00 40 00 ]
>     status=2: sense_key=5 asc=24 ascq=0
>     Incoming data, len=64:
>    00     00 00 02 02 2c 00 00 13  41 54 49 20 20 20 20 20
>    10     31 2b 30 20 4a 42 4f 44  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
>    20     31 2e 31 30 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    30     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   Vital Product Data (VPD) INQUIRY failed [3]
>   Device type: disk
>    [mode sense: 1a 00 19 00 40 00 ]
>     status=2: sense_key=5 asc=20 ascq=0
>     Incoming data, len=64:
>    00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    20     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    30     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    [mode sense(10): 5a 00 19 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 ]
>     status=2: sense_key=5 asc=20 ascq=0
>     Incoming data, len=64:
>    00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    20     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>    30     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   Local Time is: Mon Jun 18 09:18:16 2007 WEST
>    [test unit ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]
>   Device does not support SMART [Input/Output error]
>
> The error 87 on IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT looks a bit interesting,
> but maybe doesn't mean much either.
>
>   

Yes. The MODE SENSE of "Informational Exceptions Control mode page" 
fails with ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.
This mode page is requested to detect USB devices which may lock up on 
some commands.

Thanks

Christian


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