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On a recently bought internal hard disk which i made into an external, filesystem: ext4. when i mount it, conky shows high disk i/o activity even when it's not in use. i've got several other hard disks from the same manufacturer (seagate) that show none of these problems. when trying to do a SMART test, i get this error
sk_disk_check_sleep_mode: Operation not supported (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Any ideas oon how best to troubleshoot this. my google-fu has failed me
Last edited by anark10n (2012-12-09 07:23:00)
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Is the test you are trying to run supported by the disk?
Note that it is not just the disk type but also the connection and enclosure which will affect what's available. What does smartctl -a /dev/sdX give?
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use the -d switch when using smartctl. I just set it to auto.
What files are being accessed on the external?
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here's the out for smartctl with the -a switch, the -d switch kept saying it needed a device as the final argument even though i had entered it
smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.6.9-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
Serial Number: Z1F0PESD
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 04d6afb62
Firmware Version: CC4B
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Dec 8 18:50:07 2012 WAST
==> WARNING: A firmware update for this drive may be available,
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223651en
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
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.
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: ( 584) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No 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: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 345) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3085) SCT Status supported.
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 115 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 85332792
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 093 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 7
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 87090
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 201
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 7
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 050 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 50 (0 83 56 29 0)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 050 056 000 Old_age Always - 50 (0 27 0 0 0)
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
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 101h+55m+19.643s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 734943607685
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 327498796
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.
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So how are you trying to run the test exactly?
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smartctl -d /dev/sdX, smartctl -ad /dev/sdX, smartctl -da /dev/sdX. tried all those combinations. that first give the error message i describe above, while the last one seems to take the -a as a device name. am i doing it wrong?
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I'm not sure how to check the files being accessed, this happens even when i'm not doing anything on the hard disk.
Last edited by anark10n (2012-12-09 07:26:09)
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