On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 05:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/12/18 21:05, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> Seagate's SeaTools for Linux won't start on my system. The file is rather
old and
>> in a funky format, but it looks like it ought to run. Nevertheless, it won't
run.
>> Can anyone tell me what's going on? Here's what happens:
> I suppose the larger question is, why use an old tool when most drives these days
> support S.M.A.R.T. ? I think SMART came into being around 2003.
A very good question. This drive, a Seagate USB Backup Plus Portable Drive,
doesn't seem to support SMART: Here's a try:
# smartctl --xall -T permissive /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.15.15-300.fc27.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
www.smartmontools.org
Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: [No Information Found]
Serial Number: [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: [No Information Found]
Local Time is: Fri Apr 13 21:56:30 2018 PDT
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART
supported.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is
enabled.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.
I'm trying to get SeaTools for DOS, which is a self booting test suite,
intended to boot from a CD-ROM, running on a flash drive, but so far
without success.
The problem that started all this is that the drive, which I use for
backup, has started making an alarming beeping noise. After not using
it for a while the noise has gone away, and I have made another backup
successfully. Time to get a replacement; but I'm still curious what's
going on with the drive.
That's a bummer.
If you use "parted /dev/sdc" and "print". It should tell you the
make/model of the
drive.
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