[smartmontools-support] Output Error for M.2 SATA drive

[Brian M]

Christian,

I hope these attachments can help in evaluating the Western Digital M.2 SSD
drive on my MSI X370 Krait Gaming board.  I used a recent build as directed.
FYI, this M.2 SATA SSD is working fine - my reason for using SMARTCTL was to
evaluate a 2TB Seagate HDD which intermittently disconnected from its RAID
array.

- Brian -

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Franke [mailto:Christian.Franke at t-online.de] 
Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 4:39 AM
To: Brian M
Cc: smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] Output Error for M.2 SATA drive

Brian M wrote:
>
> Attached feedback for SmartCTL attempting to read data from M.2 SATA SSD.
>
> Just the M.2 port SSD is not working (non nVME) as a single disk RAID 
> 0 array.
>
> Output Error file attached for M.2 SATA drive (WD Blue series, 1 TB, 
> M.2 SSD, on AMD X370 RAID controller for MSI X370 Krait Gaming 
> MB)single disk volume RAID 0.
>
> ...
>
>

The bogus "Exception" is already fixed in SVN, see: 
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1154
This bug normally only affects some (SanDisk,...) drives which report a 
bogus form factor.


> smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-1803] (sf-7.0-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     [No Information Found]
> Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
> Add. Product Id:  W -DXW17
> Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
> Form Factor:      Unknown (0x2020)
> Smartctl: Exception: json.cpp(121): Assertion failed: value
> Please informsmartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de, including output of
smartctl -V.

This output suggests that the ATA pass-through I/O-control of the 
Windows driver for the M.2 controller returns garbage ATA IDENTIFY data.

For further diagnostics, please try a recent CI build from 
https://builds.smartmontools.org/ and provide the output from the 
following command as an attachment:

   smartctl -r ioctl,2 -i /dev/...

Thanks,
Christian

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