ports/89252: smartmontools getting gibberish

[Carl Fongheiser]

>Number:         89252
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       smartmontools getting gibberish
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 18 19:30:27 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Carl Fongheiser
>Release:        5.4-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD kf0yn.ampr.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #4: Tue Sep 20 11:06:44 CDT 2005     cmf at kf0yn.ampr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSITOS  i386            
>Description:
The smartmontools port (5.33_4) doesn't seem to work right -- it's getting gibberish in the device identity.  This seemed to start happening after I switched from an ASUS P4PE (i845PE chipset) to a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (nForce 4 chipset).

Here's what I get with "smartctl -i ad0" (results are similar for ad1):

smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd5.4] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     90}uxtov 6u040l0
Serial Number:    E1E1;|84ae
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0xfe
Local Time is:    Fri Nov 18 13:19:56 2005 CST
SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Devices [this device: Reserved] don't support ATA SMART
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

For comparison, here's the output from "atacontrol list" ("no device present" lines from SATA ports suppressed):

ATA channel 0:
    Master:  ad0 <Maxtor 6E040L0/NAR61590> ATA/ATAPI revision 7
    Slave:   ad1 <Maxtor 6Y160P0/YAR41BW0> ATA/ATAPI revision 7
ATA channel 1:
    Master: acd0 <SONY DVD RW DRU-800A/KY01> ATA/ATAPI revision 5
    Slave:       no device present

And here's what's printed at boot:

atapci0: <nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x17
7,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 6.0 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0

.. irrelevant lines suppressed ...

ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6E040L0/NAR61590> [79656/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133
ad1: 156334MB <Maxtor 6Y160P0/YAR41BW0> [317632/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133
ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
acd0: DVDR <SONY DVD RW DRU-800A/KY01> at ata1-master UDMA33
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <SONY DVD RW DRU-800A KY01> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present 

>How-To-Repeat:
See above....
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