[smartmontools-support] smartctl 7.1/7.2 broken in Mint 20.3

[p. idle]

Forgive any offensives, I'm new here (but am an oldey).

Not sure if this problem belongs with you or with the Mint linux people,
or those doing the linux core.

Have used smartctl for 12+ years (mostly with Windows, but also with
linux in the the past 4 yrs or so.

I use it mostly with parallel scsi drives, some sas drives.  See next
what 7.1 or 7.2 Smartmontools reports under Mint 20.3 which uses kernel
5.4.0-91.

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mint at mint:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-91-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               FUJITSU
Product:              MAW3300NC
Revision:             5803
User Capacity:        300,000,000,000 bytes [300 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Rotation Rate:        10025 rpm
Serial number:        DA03P7303VL4
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   Parallel SCSI (SPI-4)
Local Time is:        Thu Feb 10 04:08:16 2022 UTC
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging
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As you see, only the inq information is shown correctly, all of the
smart data is reported as 0 or not available.

- Windows xp with version 6.2/6.5/7.2 works fine.

- MX linux 21_386 (kernel 5.10.0.9-686-pae) with ver 7.2 works fine.

- Mint 19 (kernel 4.15.0-29) with ver 6.6 works fine.

- Mint 18.2  with ver 6.6 works fine.

- Most of these tests were done from a live distro boot. Am trying to
decide on a prefered distro to install on some older machines.

- Only the Mint 20.3 distro is x64.  My installed Mint 18.2 and all the
other live distros are 32 bit packages.  I tried the 20.3 distro on 64
bit capable machines and it works fine otherwise.  I also updated a
winxp box (32/64 bit processors) to smartmontools v7.2 and that worked ok.

- Not sure if it is the 20.3 distro, x64 only, or the particular kernel
used on 20.3, or some test placed in version 7.1/7.2.

Thank you for your attention.