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I just bought a Seagate SAS-3 HDD ST8000NM0075. I notice it wasn't producing SMART data although SMART was enabled, and eventually discovered the GLTSD bit, which apparently comes preset to "on", disabling SMART attribute storage (I think - a bit hazy about this!). I've just disabled it and hoping that helps.

The point being, this restriction wasn't obvious in the smartctl output at all. It's true that if I read every line of smartctl -x, there's a mention buried somewhere round line 300 about "GLSTD" being "off", but the term doesn't mean anything to most people who own or use a hard drive, and most won't dig into such output and question every line.

So this is a request, if there is a reason why smartctl thinks it might be impaired in its drive interrogation, due to SMART being disabled, SMART data or log storage being disabled, expected log pages not being found, etc, can that be stated in a clear prominent way, at the top of the output, so it's not easily missed?

It doesn't have to take much room. Just stating "Diagnostic output may be incomplete, due to disabled or inaccessible features on this device: <brief list>." would be enough.

Thanks!

I have two systems in which this is the case. The most recent just showed up today. What I did was this:

1. MegaCli64 commands: a) offline the drive (the hot spare begins rebuild) b) prepare for removal
2. Replace the drive
3. MegaCLI64 command to set the replaced drive as the new hot spare

After this, smartctl -H -d megaraid,<drive> /dev/sda fails, "INQUIRY failed". MegaCli64 reports the drive's perfectly fine, and is a hot spare.

Updated CentOS 7.6.1810, smartctl 6.5, from package smartmontools-6.5-1.el7.x86_64, which is the most current.

Drive shows in smartctl as "PQI SSD 32GB". "S525" is printed on the drive and is likely the model. Drive is some years old so cannot find link to manufacturer specs, but here is an old Amazon product page: ​https://www.amazon.com/PQI-S525-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B001SDBW7S