Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:28:43 +1030
Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:

> Have you tried smartmontools?

No, good idea. I should have thought of that...

> It probably won't work (most enclosures don't appear to implement the 
> necessary brains to translate the SMART commands) but you could be
> lucky :)

No, it didn't work. Here is some output, the drive is connected via
firewire:

root at kg-work# smartctl -i da1
smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: Maxtor OneTouch Version: 0000
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 1c 0 40 0 
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): Invalid field in CDB
Serial number: Y64FHC7E            
Device type: disk
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 19 0 40 0 
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
(pass1:sbp0:0:1:0): Invalid field in CDB
Local Time is: Tue Mar 15 23:38:47 2005 CET
Device does not support SMART

and with drive connected via USB (2.0):

root at kg-work# smartctl -i da2
smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: Maxtor   OneTouch         Version: 0201
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 1c 0 40 0 
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
Serial number: Y64FHC7E            
Device type: disk
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 19 0 40 0 
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
(pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
Local Time is: Tue Mar 15 23:40:38 2005 CET
Device does not support SMART


It gets even worse if I try 'smartctl -a da1'...
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway