Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#826 new defect

Old OCZ-Vertex2 drive: badly formed scsi parameters

Reported by: Yves Lavoie Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: undecided
Component: all Version: 6.5
Keywords: linux scsi Cc:

Description

This used to be supported, 5.39.1 reported it correctly. See ​https://hardforum.com/threads/ssd-smart-data-ocz-vertex-2.1825300/, for example.

Version 6.6 now reports Read SMART Data failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters. For example:

REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES
 Input:   FR=0xd0, SC=0x01, LL=...., LM=0x4f, LH=0xc2, DEV=...., CMD=0xb0 IN
 [ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 d0 00 01 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
  info=0x1  duration=24 milliseconds  resid=0
  status=2: sense_key=5 asc=21 ascq=4
sat_device::ata_pass_through: scsi error: badly formed scsi parameters
 [Duration: 0,020s]
REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES returned -1 errno=5 [scsi error badly formed scsi parameters]
Read SMART Data failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters

This is the actual booted device on a Linux 4.10.1 amd64 server.

Change History (13)

comment:1 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Milestone: → undecided

Version 6.6 is not released yet. Please (always!) provide the very first line of smartctl output as it provides important info for diagnostics: SVN revision number, platform, and (in some cases) distribution.

Did smartctl 5.39.1 run on same system (same kernel!) actually provide the correct info?

Possibly related, same SCSI(SAT) error is reported: ticket #819.

Similar questions arise:
Did smartctl -x work with other drives behind same (which?) controller+driver?
Are any -d TYPE options used?

For further diagnostics, please provide output of:
smartctl -r ioctl,2 -i -H -A ...
of smartctl 5.39.1 and the 6.6 SVN snapshot used above.

comment:2 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Keywords: linux scsi added
Summary: Old OCZ-Vertex2 drive → Old OCZ-Vertex2 drive: badly formed scsi parameters

comment:3 by Yves Lavoie, 8 years ago

Current info for OCZ-Vertex2:

smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     SandForce[290900]
Serial Number:    1
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00232d 000000001
Firmware Version: 1.28
User Capacity:    115 033 153 536 bytes [115 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Sun Apr  2 10:51:21 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Other drives read correctly but they are much younger. For example:

 smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Black
Device Model:     WDC WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC6Y2SP8KAK
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 262cb4c0f
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity:    1 000 204 886 016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sun Apr  2 10:50:56 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

 smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   188   173   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       1600
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       50
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   091   091   000    Old_age   Always       -       7227
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       50
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       41
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       72
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   117   088   000    Old_age   Always       -       26
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

Detailed output with version 6.6

smartctl -r ioctl,2 -i -H -A /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.10.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

 [inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
  info=0x0  duration=0 milliseconds  resid=0
  Incoming data, len=36:
 00     00 00 05 02 5b 00 00 02  41 54 41 20 20 20 20 20
 10     53 61 6e 64 46 6f 72 63  65 5b 32 39 30 39 30 30
 20     31 2e 32 38
 [ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
  info=0x0  duration=4 milliseconds  resid=0
  Incoming data, len=512 [only first 256 bytes shown]:
 00     40 00 ff 3f 37 c8 10 00  00 00 00 00 3f 00 00 00
 10     00 00 00 00 20 31 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
 20     20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  00 00 00 00 04 00 2e 31
 30     38 32 20 20 20 20 61 53  64 6e 6f 46 63 72 5b 65
 40     39 32 39 30 30 30 20 5d  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
 50     20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 10 80
 60     00 00 00 2f 00 40 00 02  00 02 07 00 ff 3f 10 00
 70     3f 00 10 fc fb 00 01 91  50 41 64 0d 00 00 07 00
 80     03 00 78 00 78 00 78 00  78 00 00 40 00 00 00 00
 90     00 00 00 00 00 00 1f 00  06 07 00 00 4c 00 44 00
 a0     fc 01 28 00 6b 74 01 75  63 61 69 70 01 b4 63 61
 b0     7f 40 c8 00 c8 00 fe 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 c0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  50 41 64 0d 00 00 00 00
 d0     00 00 01 00 00 40 00 00  02 50 d0 32 00 00 01 00
 e0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 14 40
 f0     14 40 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
/dev/sda [SAT]: Device open changed type from 'scsi' to 'sat'

REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE
 Input:   FR=...., SC=0x01, LL=...., LM=...., LH=...., DEV=...., CMD=0xec IN
 [ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x0, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x0
  info=0x0  duration=12 milliseconds  resid=0
  Incoming data, len=512 [only first 256 bytes shown]:
 00     40 00 ff 3f 37 c8 10 00  00 00 00 00 3f 00 00 00
 10     00 00 00 00 20 31 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
 20     20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  00 00 00 00 04 00 2e 31
 30     38 32 20 20 20 20 61 53  64 6e 6f 46 63 72 5b 65
 40     39 32 39 30 30 30 20 5d  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
 50     20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 10 80
 60     00 00 00 2f 00 40 00 02  00 02 07 00 ff 3f 10 00
 70     3f 00 10 fc fb 00 01 91  50 41 64 0d 00 00 07 00
 80     03 00 78 00 78 00 78 00  78 00 00 40 00 00 00 00
 90     00 00 00 00 00 00 1f 00  06 07 00 00 4c 00 44 00
 a0     fc 01 28 00 6b 74 01 75  63 61 69 70 01 b4 63 61
 b0     7f 40 c8 00 c8 00 fe 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 c0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  50 41 64 0d 00 00 00 00
 d0     00 00 01 00 00 40 00 00  02 50 d0 32 00 00 01 00
 e0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 14 40
 f0     14 40 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 [Duration: 0.010s]
REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=IDENTIFY DEVICE returned 0

===== [IDENTIFY DEVICE] DATA START (BASE-16) =====
000-015: 40 00 ff 3f 37 c8 10 00 00 00 00 00 3f 00 00 00 |@..?7.......?...|
016-031: 00 00 00 00 20 31 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |.... 1          |
032-047: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 04 00 2e 31 |        .......1|
048-063: 38 32 20 20 20 20 61 53 64 6e 6f 46 63 72 5b 65 |82    aSdnoFcr[e|
064-079: 39 32 39 30 30 30 20 5d 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |929000 ]        |
080-095: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 10 80 |              ..|
096-111: 00 00 00 2f 00 40 00 02 00 02 07 00 ff 3f 10 00 |.../.@.......?..|
112-127: 3f 00 10 fc fb 00 01 91 50 41 64 0d 00 00 07 00 |?.......PAd.....|
128-143: 03 00 78 00 78 00 78 00 78 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 |..x.x.x.x..@....|
144-159: 00 00 00 00 00 00 1f 00 06 07 00 00 4c 00 44 00 |............L.D.|
160-175: fc 01 28 00 6b 74 01 75 63 61 69 70 01 b4 63 61 |..(.kt.ucaip..ca|
176-191: 7f 40 c8 00 c8 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.@..............|
192-207: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 41 64 0d 00 00 00 00 |........PAd.....|
208-223: 00 00 01 00 00 40 00 00 02 50 d0 32 00 00 01 00 |.....@...P.2....|
224-239: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 40 |...............@|
240-255: 14 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.@..............|
256-271: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
272-287: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
288-303: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
304-319: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
320-335: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
336-351: 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
352-367: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
368-383: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
384-399: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
400-415: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3d 00 00 00 |............=...|
416-431: 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |...@............|
432-447: 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 ff ff |................|
448-463: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
464-479: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
480-495: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
496-511: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a5 9d |................|
===== [IDENTIFY DEVICE] DATA END (512 Bytes) =====

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     SandForce[290900]
Serial Number:    1
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00232d 000000001
Firmware Version: 1.28
User Capacity:    115 033 153 536 bytes [115 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Sun Apr  2 10:52:24 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES
 Input:   FR=0xd0, SC=0x01, LL=...., LM=0x4f, LH=0xc2, DEV=...., CMD=0xb0 IN
 [ata pass-through(16): 85 08 0e 00 d0 00 01 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
  info=0x1  duration=20 milliseconds  resid=0
  Incoming data, len=512 [only first 256 bytes shown]:
 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 20     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 30     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 40     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 50     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 60     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 70     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 80     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 90     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 a0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 b0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 c0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 d0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 e0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 f0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  >>> Sense buffer, len=18:
 00     70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a  04 51 00 01 21 04 00 00
 10     00 00
  status=2: sense_key=5 asc=21 ascq=4
sat_device::ata_pass_through: scsi error: badly formed scsi parameters
 [Duration: 0,021s]
REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES returned -1 errno=5 [scsi error badly formed scsi parameters]

===== [SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES] DATA START (BASE-16) =====
000-015: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
016-031: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
032-047: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
048-063: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
064-079: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
080-095: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
096-111: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
112-127: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
128-143: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
144-159: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
160-175: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
176-191: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
192-207: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
208-223: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
224-239: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
240-255: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
256-271: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
272-287: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
288-303: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
304-319: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
320-335: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
336-351: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
352-367: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
368-383: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
384-399: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
400-415: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
416-431: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
432-447: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
448-463: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
464-479: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
480-495: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
496-511: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
===== [SMART READ ATTRIBUTE VALUES] DATA END (512 Bytes) =====

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART STATUS CHECK
 Input:   FR=0xda, SC=...., LL=...., LM=0x4f, LH=0xc2, DEV=...., CMD=0xb0
 [ata pass-through(16): 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
  info=0x1  duration=28 milliseconds  resid=0
  >>> Sense buffer, len=18:
 00     70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a  04 51 00 00 21 04 00 00
 10     00 00
  status=2: sense_key=5 asc=21 ascq=4
sat_device::ata_pass_through: scsi error: badly formed scsi parameters
 [Duration: 0,027s]
REPORT-IOCTL: Device=/dev/sda Command=SMART STATUS CHECK returned -1 errno=5 [scsi error badly formed scsi parameters]
SMART Status command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Version 5.39 doesn't compile anymore on current kernels, it is dated 2012.

comment:4 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago 

Device Model:     SandForce[290900]
Serial Number:    1

Just curious: Is this an early engineering sample?

Symptoms are the same as reported in ticket #819 for a newer SSD on Linux 4.4.53: SMART SAT commands fail, Linux kernel returns bogus sense data.

comment:5 by Yves Lavoie, 8 years ago

I don't know why it doesn't report OCZ-Vertex2, which is what is printed on both sides of the drive.
I was able to compile 5.43, which show the same problem as 6.6, so it was brought between 5.39 and 5.43

in reply to:  5 comment:6 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Thanks for testing,.

I was able to compile 5.43, which show the same problem as 6.6, so it was brought between 5.39 and 5.43

Probably not. Smartmontools 5.43​ was released June 2012. If there is a related bug in smartmontools since then, I'm sure that it would have been reported since then. The fact that two similar reports appear now suggest that there is a problem in the SAT ATA-PASS-THROUGH code of recent Linux kernels.

in reply to:  description comment:7 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

This used to be supported, 5.39.1 reported it correctly.

Smartmontools 5.39 and 5.39.1 could be compiled after applying the fix r3178 which simply adds #include <stddef.h> to top of os_linux.cpp (tested on Debian Jessie). Smartmontools 5.40 already included this fix.

If the SCSI error persists then, this is likely a kernel bug (or a lack of backward compatibility). If not, we should be able to track down the problem by analyzing code changes between 5.39.1 and 5.4x.

comment:8 by Yves Lavoie, 8 years ago

It does indeed compile and required also a fix in knowndrives.cpp to allow my weird model.
"OCZ[ -]VERTEX.*|SandForce\\[290900\\]" did the trick.

But then it wasn't able to enable smart on this device:

/smartctl --smart=on -d sat -a -T permissive /dev/sda
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     OCZ Vertex SSD
Device Model:     SandForce[290900]
Serial Number:    1
Firmware Version: 1.28
User Capacity:    115 033 153 536 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is:    Mon Apr  3 10:28:47 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enabled.
SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.

comment:9 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

The result is as expected. Smartctl up to 5.39.1 use a more strict SMART support check inherited from the early ATA-3 days: It refuses to continue if the SMART RETURN STATUS command does not work at all.

If the command is repeated with -r ioctl,2 set, the debug output will likely report a SCSI error with sense_key=5 asc=21 ascq=4 as seen in previous debug output.

comment:10 by Yves Lavoie, 8 years ago

Confirmed.

comment:11 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Source of Linux Kernel 4.10.* function ​ata_to_sense_error() suggests that these SCSI sense codes are returned as a fallback if the ATA command failed with an error code not matched by the sense_table.

Please provide the kernel log messages which occur when smartctl fails. There should be at least one message which shows the original ATA error and status codes:

... ata.: translated ATA stat/err 0x../.. to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x5/21/04

Please also include related messages which may show details of the failed ATA command.

comment:12 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Please also provide info about SATA controller and Linux distribution used.

comment:13 by Christian Franke, 6 years ago

Possibly related: tickets #819 and #1070.

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