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<div>Hello Christian, I ran the command with v7.3 and got the same unsupported firmware error. :/</div>
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<div>full output: </div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="https://pastebin.com/nyrK1wJ8">https://pastebin.com/nyrK1wJ8</a></span></p>
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<span class="s1">$ sudo smartctl --scan ; echo "exit code: $(echo $?)"</span></p>
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<span class="s1">/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">/dev/bus/1 -d megaraid,0 # /dev/bus/1 [megaraid_disk_00], SCSI device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">/dev/bus/1 -d megaraid,1 # /dev/bus/1 [megaraid_disk_01], SCSI device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">/dev/nvme0 -d nvme # /dev/nvme0, NVMe device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">/dev/nvme1 -d nvme # /dev/nvme1, NVMe device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">exit code: 0</span></p>
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<span class="s1"> </span></p>
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<span class="s1">$ sudo smartctl -x /dev/bus/1 -d megaraid,0; echo "exit code: $(echo $?)"</span></p>
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<span class="s1">smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-394.el8.x86_64] (local build)</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Copyright (C) </span><span class="s2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2002-22</span><span class="s1">, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, </span><span class="s2" style="text-decoration: underline;">www.smartmontools.org</span></p>
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<span class="s1"> </span></p>
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<span class="s1">=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Device Model: MTFDDAK480TDS</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Serial Number: <SN></span></p>
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<span class="s1">LU WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 12f771dee</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Add. Product Id: DELL(tm)</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Firmware Version: D3DJ004</span></p>
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<span class="s1">User Capacity: 480,103,981,056 bytes [480 GB]</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Rotation Rate: Solid State Device</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Form Factor: 2.5 inches</span></p>
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<span class="s1">TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5319</span></p>
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<span class="s1">ATA Version is: ACS-4 (minor revision not indicated)</span></p>
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<span class="s1">SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Local Time is: Tue Jul 5 07:23:12 </span><span class="s2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2022 PDT</span></p>
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<span class="s1">SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.</span></p>
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<span class="s1">SMART support is: Enabled</span></p>
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<span class="s1">AAM feature is: Unavailable</span></p>
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<span class="s1">APM level is: 254 (maximum performance)</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Rd look-ahead is: Enabled</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Write cache is: Enabled</span></p>
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<span class="s1">DSN feature is: Unavailable</span></p>
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<span class="s1">ATA Security is: Unavailable</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Write SCT (Get) Feature Control Command failed: ATA return descriptor not supported by controller firmware</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Wt Cache Reorder: Unknown (SCT Feature Control command failed)</span></p>
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<span class="s1"> </span></p>
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<span class="s1">=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===</span></p>
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<span class="s1">SMART Status not supported: ATA return descriptor not supported by controller firmware</span></p>
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<span class="s1">SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.</span></p>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jul 1, 2022, at 3:55 PM, Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Haci Monk wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>**</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I am in the process of building healthcheck for our various linux machines (DELL, HP etc) and trying to utilize some of the standard tools to expose physical disk health state. I am a noob on smartctl and trying to understand how
it can help here.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I am encountering exit 4 running smartctl against my DELL machines on megaraid devices. Checking the man page for this return code, it states: “Bit 2: Some SMART or other ATA command to the disk failed, or there was a checksum
error in a SMART data structure (see '-b' option above)”</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I am assuming the failure here is because of the “ATA return descriptor not supported by controller firmware”?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Has anyone experienced this and how to overcome it?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Platform: Dell PowerEdge R740/R740XD</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * PERC H730P RAID Controller, 2GB NV Cache, Adapter, Full Height</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 480GB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive, 1</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> DWPD</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 1.6TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>The full output from scan and query against each device is uploaded to:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>https://pastebin.com/5tcCvyCp</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>*$ sudo smartctl --scan*</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/bus/0 -d megaraid,0 # /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_00], SCSI device</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/bus/0 -d megaraid,1 # /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_01], SCSI device</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/nvme0 -d nvme # /dev/nvme0, NVMe device</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/nvme1 -d nvme # /dev/nvme1, NVMe device</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>*$ sudo smartctl --xall -d megaraid,1 /dev/bus/0; echo "exit code: $(echo $?)"*</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>smartctl 7.1 2020-04-05 r5049 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-394.el8.x86_64] (local build)</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org <http://www.smartmontools.org></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Device Model: MTFDDAK480TDS</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>,,,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>SMART Status not supported: ATA return descriptor not supported by controller firmware</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>...</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>exit code: 4</span><br>
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<span>Should no longer occur in smartctl 7.3, see</span><br>
<span>https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1441</span><br>
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