S.M.A.R.T. not avaiable for SATA drives

[hexion]

Binary package hint: hddtemp

$ sudo /usr/sbin/hddtemp /dev/hda
/dev/hda: ST3250823A: 41°C

$ sudo /usr/sbin/hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ATA Maxtor 6L250S0: S.M.A.R.T. not available

System upgraded from Edgy to Feisty (dist-upgrade method). In Edgy, it worked well.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Mon Feb 26 16:13:28 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux patatilla 2.6.20-8-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 13 05:21:37 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[hexion (hexium)]

Same problem with 2.6.20-9-lowlatency and 2.6.20-9-generic kernels

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

This is clearly a regression from Edgy.

Also happens for smartmontools:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
Password:
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA SAMSUNG HD300LJ Version: ZT10
Serial number: S0D7J1KLA03948
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Mar 3 12:07:13 2007 CET
Device does not support SMART

Error Counter logging not supported

[GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with '-S on']
Device does not support Self Test logging

[hexion (hexium)]

The bug is still there with 2.6.20-10 kernel image

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

Bug still happens with 2.6.20-11 kernel

[mic.1.2.3 (launchpad-0123)]

hddtemp doesn't work here ("S.M.A.R.T. not available") with my sata-disk, too.

# hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/sda
/dev/hda: ST380011A: 29°C
/dev/sda: ATA ST3250820AS: S.M.A.R.T. not available

But S.M.A.R.T actually is available, "sudo smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda" gives me the full output including temperature.

2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 03:43:56 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

Fixed in 2.6.20-12

[hexion (hexium)]

Almost totally fixed... there's a little layout problem:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/hddtemp /dev/hda
/dev/hda: SAMSUNG HD400LD: 41°C

 sudo /usr/sbin/hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Maxtor 6L250S0 �: 36°C

But it's just a minor issue :)

[mic.1.2.3 (launchpad-0123)]

I got a similar "problem": thirty space characters between the sata-disk's name and the colon before the temperature:

$ hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/sda
/dev/hda: ST380011A: 27°C
/dev/sda: ST3250820AS : 27°C

I supposed a faulty entry in my /etc/hddtemp.db, but everything is fine there...

[mic.1.2.3 (launchpad-0123)]

upps, the 30 space characters have been discarded