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I'm running into this with a lot of NVME drives in Windows 10 (Intel
chipset). When I run smartctl -a or smartctl -x I get results like
the ones below. Any idea how to fix this?<br>
<br>
smartctl -a /dev/sda<br>
<br>
smartctl pre-7.5 2023-09-16 r5554 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-21H2]
(CircleCI)<br>
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmontools.org">www.smartmontools.org</a><br>
<br>
Read Device Identity failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
If this is a USB connected device, look at the various --device=TYPE
variants<br>
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===<br>
Device Model: [No Information Found]<br>
Serial Number: [No Information Found]<br>
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]<br>
Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5533<br>
ATA Version is: [No Information Found]<br>
Local Time is: Wed Mar 20 13:51:30 2024 ADT<br>
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't
show if SMART supported.<br>
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't
show if SMART is enabled.<br>
Checking to be sure by trying SMART RETURN STATUS
command.<br>
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.<br>
SMART support is: Enabled<br>
<br>
Read SMART Data failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===<br>
SMART Status command failed<br>
Please get assistance from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smartmontools.org/">https://www.smartmontools.org/</a><br>
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:<br>
ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0x00, LM=0x00, LH=0x00, DEV=0x00, STS=0x00<br>
SMART Status not supported: Invalid ATA output register values<br>
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!<br>
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.<br>
<br>
Read SMART Error Log failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
Read SMART Self-test Log failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported<br>
<br>
The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x'
for more<br>
<br>
smartctl -x /dev/sda<br>
<br>
smartctl pre-7.5 2023-09-16 r5554 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-21H2]
(CircleCI)<br>
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmontools.org">www.smartmontools.org</a><br>
<br>
Read Device Identity failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
If this is a USB connected device, look at the various --device=TYPE
variants<br>
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===<br>
Device Model: [No Information Found]<br>
Serial Number: [No Information Found]<br>
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]<br>
Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5533<br>
ATA Version is: [No Information Found]<br>
Local Time is: Wed Mar 20 14:12:07 2024 ADT<br>
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't
show if SMART supported.<br>
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't
show if SMART is enabled.<br>
Checking to be sure by trying SMART RETURN STATUS
command.<br>
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.<br>
SMART support is: Enabled<br>
AAM feature is: Unavailable<br>
APM feature is: Unavailable<br>
Rd look-ahead is: Unavailable<br>
Write cache is: Unavailable<br>
DSN feature is: Unavailable<br>
ATA Security is: Unavailable<br>
Wt Cache Reorder: Unavailable<br>
<br>
Read SMART Data failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===<br>
SMART Status command failed<br>
Please get assistance from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smartmontools.org/">https://www.smartmontools.org/</a><br>
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:<br>
ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0x00, LM=0x00, LH=0x00, DEV=0x00, STS=0x00<br>
SMART Status not supported: Invalid ATA output register values<br>
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!<br>
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.<br>
<br>
Read SMART Log Directory failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
ATA_READ_LOG_EXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: Input/output
error<br>
Read GP Log Directory failed<br>
<br>
SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported<br>
<br>
Read SMART Error Log failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported<br>
<br>
Read SMART Self-test Log failed: Input/output error<br>
<br>
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported<br>
<br>
SCT Commands not supported<br>
<br>
Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported<br>
<br>
Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported<br>
<br>
SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) not supported<br>
<br>
<br>
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