SATA drives in SIIG 3.0 gbps 2 drive enclosure reports error.

[George R. Goffe]

Hi,

I just rebuilt my smartmontools from the latest(?) from the Subversion Repository. so... if the Repo is uptodate then my built smartmon tools are up to date... at least I hope they are. See the output from "smartctl --version" command below.

I have 6 SIIG Dual drive USB docking stations that support >2TB drives. When I enter "smartctl -d sat -H /dev/sdd" I get the following:

smartctl -d sat -H /dev/sdd
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.7.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc33.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from https://www.smartmontools.org/
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
 ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0x4f, LM=0x92, LH=0x59, DEV=0x40, STS=0x50
SMART Status not supported: Invalid ATA output register values
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

Does this mean that the SIIG devices are not supported by smartmon et. al.?

I would be happy to work with you folks to test and/or gather any data I can to get the SIIG device supported.

Best regards,

George...

smartctl --version
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.7.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc33.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

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smartmontools release 7.1 dated 2019-12-30 at 15:00:11 UTC
smartmontools SVN rev 5022 dated 2019-12-30 at 15:00:49
smartmontools build host: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
smartmontools build with: C++14, GCC 10.0.1 20200126 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.6)
smartmontools configure arguments: '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-selinux' '--with-libcap-ng=yes' '--with-libsystemd' '--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system' '--sysconfdir=/etc/smartmontools/' '--with-systemdenvfile=/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed  -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'

[Christian Franke]

Looks like another USB bridge with buggy implementation of SAT Return Descriptor which returns the ATA output register values:

Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
 ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0x4f, LM=0x92, LH=0x59, DEV=0x40, STS=0x50

Expected: ... LL=0x4f, LM=0xc2, ....

Please provide the outputs of

smartctl -i /dev/sdd
smartctl -r ioctl,2 -d sat -i -H /dev/sdd
smartctl -d sat -x /dev/sdd

as attachments to this ticket.

[Christian Franke]

SAT implementation of USB bridge returns bogus ATA output registers. No feedback from reporter.