[OpenIndiana-discuss] smartmontools under OI151a7

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I have an OI 151a7 system that for some reason NEVER EVER could be updated.

I have tried, following lots of ideas from lots of people on this list, 
but to absolutely no avail.

So, I have come to a point where I absolutely need to run smartmontools 
to avoid problems, and smartctl fails.

I installed smartmontools version 6.5 from a tar ball, and it seems to 
run, but using it fails.

What could be wrong??? does this indicate a sw error or something broken 
in the SATA interfaces??

1. It seems to partially work:
hans at klaus%167%13:28> pfexec ./smartctl -a -P show /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [i386-pc-solaris2.12] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Drive found in smartmontools Database.  Drive identity strings:
MODEL:              ST1000NM0033-9ZM173
FIRMWARE:           SN06
match smartmontools Drive Database entry:
MODEL REGEXP:       ST[1234]000NM00[35]3-.*|MB1000GCWCV
FIRMWARE REGEXP:    .*
MODEL FAMILY:       Seagate Constellation ES.3
ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS:  None preset; no -v options are required.


2. trying to look at any smart test results won't work
hans at klaus%168%13:33> pfexec ./smartctl -a /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [i386-pc-solaris2.12] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Constellation ES.3
Device Model:     ST1000NM0033-9ZM173
Serial Number:    Z1W5KJ6M
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 09180d2a1
Firmware Version: SN06
User Capacity:    1 000 204 886 016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Jan 19 13:35:04 2017 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error aborted command
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error aborted command

Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error aborted command

Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error aborted command

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

3. running a test won't work, either!
hans at klaus%169%13:35> pfexec ./smartctl -t short /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [i386-pc-solaris2.12] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command