On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:42:13PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Ok, so I bought an enterprise grade drive, the WD RE4 (2TB) and I'm
> about to add it in place of the drive that failed.
>
> I did a quick check with smartctl:
>
> # smartctl -a /dev/sdb -l scterc
> ....
> SCT Error Recovery Control:
> Read: 70 (7.0 seconds)
> Write: 70 (7.0 seconds)
>
> so the TLER feature appears to be there. I haven't tried changing it.
>
> For my old Barracuda 7200.12 that is still working, I see this:
>
> SCT Error Recovery Control:
> Read: Disabled
> Write: Disabled
>
> and a diff between the full output for both drives reveals the following:
>
> -SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
> +SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
> SCT Error Recovery Control
> supported.
> SCT Feature Control supported.
> SCT Data Table supported.
But FYI, the new Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM001 drives I have here do
*not* support this feature. Has Seagate started crippling its
consumer-grade drives?
root@storage3:~# smartctl -l scterc /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.3.4-030304-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Warning: device does not support SCT Error Recovery Control command
root@storage3:~# smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.3.4-030304-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Warning: device does not support SCT Error Recovery Control command
root@storage3:~# smartctl -i /dev/sdb -q noserial
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.3.4-030304-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
Firmware Version: CC4C
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Mon May 21 15:16:53 2012 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
The Hitachi Deskstar HDS5C3030ALA630 *does* support scterc.
Regards,
Brian.
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