Bug 246547

Summary:	smartctl fails on SATA drives
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gregorio Gervasio <gregorio.gervasio>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	chris.brown
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Description Gregorio Gervasio 2007-07-02 23:26:48 UTC

Description of problem:
Running "smartctl" on a SATA drive results in the following error message:

Error SMART Status command failed

This command works on the same system if booted with an FC6 kernel
(2.6.20-1.2948.fc6).  Parallel ATA drives are also fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

How reproducible:
This always fails on multiple systems (i686 and x86_64), multiple drives
(Seagate and Maxtor), and multiple SATA controllers (nVidia CK804 and SiI 3114).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "smartctl -d ata -i /dev/sd?" on a SATA drive
  
Actual results:
This is the output from smartctl:

# smartctl -d ata -i /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family
Device Model:     ST3500630AS
Serial Number:    [deleted]
Firmware Version: 3.AAC
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Mon Jul  2 16:09:48 2007 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Error SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
CMD=0x50
FR =0x00
NS =0x00
SC =0x00
CL =0x00
CH =0x00
SEL=0x00
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.


Expected results:
There should be no error from smartctl.

Additional info:
The following seem to describe the same problem:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/10/25
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/106821

Comment 1 Christopher Brown 2007-09-17 20:23:08 UTC

Hello Gregorio,

I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to
isolate current bugs in the fedora kernel.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage

I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can.

There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if
you are still having problems with the latest kernel?

If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a
few days if there is no additional information lodged.

Cheers
Chris

Comment 2 Gregorio Gervasio 2007-09-17 20:40:40 UTC

This was an upstream bug and the fix was released in kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7.