Cannot start smartd on Quantum drive

Thu Jun 24 18:57:39 UTC 2010

Hello,

Running FreeBSD 8.0.

I cloned using 'dump' a very old and failing Fujitsu drive that was
mounted as /dev/ad0 to a Quantum drive that was mounted at the time of
dumping as /dev/ad3. I used the method of cloning described in
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11680. There is a second
drive that was mounted as /dev/ad2. After the clone was completed and
the system was reconfigured taking out the failing drive and inserting
the replacement drive as a master drive. Upon booting in the new drive
configuration, I received the following message that it couldn't boot
from /dev/ad0s1a:

,----
| Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1294237239 Hz quality 80
| Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
| Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
| ROOT MOUNT ERROR
| If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following
| from the loader prompt:
|
| set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
|
| and then remove invalid entries from /etc/fstab
|
| Loader variables:
| vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
| vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
`----

I found from dmesg that I had the following mounted disks:

  ad2: 26147MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 A1S.3700> at ata1-master UDMA66

  ad3: 76293MB <Seagate ST380011A 8.16> at ata1-slave UDMA100

I ended up with a mountroot command prompt. After fiddling around, I
finally was able to change the boot order so that it boots from
/dev/ad2s1. I also had to edit the /etc/fstab. After rebooting, I was
able to boot up the system successfully except that I now received an
error message that smartd couldn't start monitoring /dev/ad2 as follows:

  ad2: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>

Ok, check log:

  root at ftp:/root# tail /var/log/messages
  <..snip..>
  Jun 24 10:26:48 ftp kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
  Jun 24 10:26:48 ftp kernel: GEOM: ufsid/47336891c9952d8a: geometry
does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).
  Jun 24 10:26:52 ftp kernel: ad2: FAILURE - SMART
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
  Jun 24 10:26:52 ftp smartd[786]: Unable to register ATA device
/dev/ad2 at line 41 of file /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf
  Jun 24 10:26:52 ftp smartd[786]: Unable to register device /dev/ad2
(no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
  Jun 24 10:26:52 ftp root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start smartd
  <..snip..>
  root at ftp:/root#

Listing relevant info in smartd.conf:

  # First (primary) ATA/IDE hard disk.  Monitor all attributes, enable
  # automatic online data collection, automatic Attribute autosave, and
  # start a short self-test every day between 2-3am, and a long self
test
  # Saturdays between 3-4am.
  #/dev/hda -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)
  /dev/ad2 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)
  /dev/ad3 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)

fsck'ing all volumes on /dev/ad2 comes up clean.

Trying to start smartd from command prompt:

  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -s on /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
  Error SMART Enable failed
  Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.

  A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.
  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -s on -T verypermissive /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
  Error SMART Enable failed
  Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.

  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -i /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
  Model Family:     Quantum Fireball Plus KX series
  Device Model:     QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3
  Serial Number:    158002833918
  Firmware Version: A1S.3700
  User Capacity:    27,417,755,648 bytes
  Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
  ATA Version is:   4
  ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15
  Local Time is:    Thu Jun 24 11:12:35 2010 PDT
  SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
  SMART support is: Enabled

  SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -t short /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -a /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
  Model Family:     Quantum Fireball Plus KX series
  Device Model:     QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3
  Serial Number:    158002833918
  Firmware Version: A1S.3700
  User Capacity:    27,417,755,648 bytes
  Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
  ATA Version is:   4
  ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15
  Local Time is:    Thu Jun 24 11:16:54 2010 PDT
  SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
  SMART support is: Enabled

  SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
  root at ftp:/root# smartctl -s on /dev/ad2
  smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386] (local
build)
  Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

  === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
  Error SMART Enable failed
  Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.

  A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.

What do I need to do in order to enable smartd support?

~Doug