On the back of How to repair a corrupted HFS+ partition from a damaged hard-disk?, I have separate question. I'd like to run smartctl tests on a hard disk, but I'm not sure which option I should use to correctly initialize the tests.
The drive in question is a Toshiba MK2555GSXF 250GB SATA/300 5400RPM 8MB 2.5" Hard Drive, and I connect it to the Linux box using an Icy Box IB-AC603A-U3 Adaptor SATA 6.4 cm / 2.5 Inches to USB 3.0 external disk case. Here's relevant output from lshw:
*-scsi
physical id: 3
bus info: usb@2:5
logical name: scsi7
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: 2105
vendor: ASMT
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@7:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 0
serial: 00000000000000000000
size: 232GiB (250GB)
capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
configuration: ansiversion=6 guid=6b43402b-9887-4a33-a329-9801b59ccdc7
*-volume:0
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: BSD 4.4
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@7:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
version: FAT32
serial: 70d6-1701
size: 199MiB
capacity: 199MiB
capabilities: boot fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=EFI name=EFI System Partition
*-volume:1
description: Apple HFS partition
vendor: Mac OS X (fsck)
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@7:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sdb2
version: 4
serial: d9a741cc-8313-cc78-0000-000000800000
size: 232GiB
capabilities: journaled bootable osx hfsplus initialized
configuration: boot=osx checked=2009-09-24 02:29:07 created=2009-09-23 17:29:07 filesystem=hfsplus lastmountedby=fsck modified=2013-11-03 01:02:00 name=Customer state=unclean
When I run a smartctl Self Test, it seems to fail:
root@liv-HP-Compaq-dc7900:/home/liv# smartctl -i -H -c '/dev/sdb'
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-57-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
/dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x174c:0x5136 (0x001)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
The trouble is that I'm not sure what to use for the -d option. I checked the man page, and the most sensible options seem ata or scsi. I understand that this particular drive is SATA, but for some reason lshw identifies it as SCSI. So I'm not sure what option is appropriate in this case?
UPDATE1: As suggested in the answers, I identified the device manufacturer:
root@liv-HP-Compaq-dc7900:/home/liv# lsusb -v
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 174c:5136 ASMedia Technology Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x174c ASMedia Technology Inc.
idProduct 0x5136
bcdDevice 0.01
iManufacturer 2 ASMedia
iProduct 3 AS2105
iSerial 1 00000000000000000000
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI
bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk-Only
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Status: 0x0001
Self Powered
Then checked whether the device (ASMedia AS2105 with ID 0x174c:0x5136) is listed in Smartmontools USB Device Support. There were a couple of very similar matches with successful outcomes, all suggesting the use of -d sat. And this seems to work in my case, too:
root@liv-HP-Compaq-dc7900:/home/liv# smartctl -d sat -i -H -c '/dev/sdb'
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-57-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF
Serial Number: 10J9SA69S
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 245a067fd
Firmware Version: FH205B
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Fri Jan 17 16:18:03 2014 CET
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: ( 120) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No 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: ( 90) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0039) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
Now to make gsmartcontrol recognize the disk, I had to Device > Add Device, put /dev/sdb in Name and select sat,16 for Type. So this pretty much solves this particular question.
