Does Smartmon Work?

Ezra Pound

Well-Known Member
With all the current talk about Fan noise, I thought I would try and monitor the Hard disk drive temperature, So, Has anyone managed to get smartmontools 5.41 working?

I have installed Ver 5.41 and run /mod/sbin/smartd –d But all I get is ‘Unable to monitor any SMART enabled devices’ there is also a debug line that states ‘glob(3) found no matches for pattern /dev/sd[a-c][a-z]’

As the internal HDD should be either /dev/sda or /dev/sdb I’m not sure how to proceed
 
Bit more progress, smartd is the deamon. If you run /mod/bin/smartctl /dev/sda -A you get this :-

Code:
humax# /mod/bin/smartctl /dev/sdb -A
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
 
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  114  099  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      66639826
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003  097  097  000    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  098  098  020    Old_age  Always      -      2878
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  100  100  036    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  078  060  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      70499004
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  097  097  000    Old_age  Always      -      3293
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013  100  100  097    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  099  099  020    Old_age  Always      -      1439
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032  100  100  099    Old_age  Always      -      0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  097  097  000    Old_age  Always      -      3
188 Command_Timeout        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
189 High_Fly_Writes        0x003a  093  093  000    Old_age  Always      -      7
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  066  044  045    Old_age  Always  In_the_past 34 (0 109 34 32)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022  034  056  000    Old_age  Always      -      34 (0 13 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  048  039  000    Old_age  Always      -      66639826
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0010  100  100  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

190 seems a bit unreliable but 194 makes sense, e.g. current temp = 34Deg C
NOTES:- The Humax has only been on for 5 Mins.
/dev/sda = External USB drive (/dev/sdb = internal HDD)
 
This is the command I use:

smartctl -a /dev/sda

Works for me, but I don't use an external drive, just an 1TB internal that I fitted myself.

Code:
humax# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
 
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:    Western Digital AV-GP
Device Model:    WDC WD10EVDS-63U8B1
Serial Number:    WD-WCAV5U687478
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b0aa6020
Firmware Version: 01.00A01
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:  8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Sat Mar 17 15:59:05 2012 GMT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
 
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
 
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (19980) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 230) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x3037) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.
 
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  192  189  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      6366
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      923
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  099  099  000    Old_age  Always      -      1227
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      921
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  199  199  000    Old_age  Always      -      919
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      2432
194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  115  085  000    Old_age  Always      -      32
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0
 
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
 
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
 
 
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

FWIW, the Hummy had only just been powered on, hence the low HDD temp. I will leave it on now and check again later.
 
Yes it looks like -A = All Vendor Specific and -a = All
My fan comes on Full at 55C , down to Half at 52C down to a Quarter at 49C and off at 46C
 
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