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Author: | marc.aronson [ Sat May 05, 2007 2:42 pm ] |
Post subject: | Acoustic management on SATA drives |
I'm want to try setting the "quiet mode" of my SATA drive. When I execute "hdparm -I /dev/sda" part of the output states Quote: Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 0 This means that acoustic management is turned off. However, when I try to only query the acoustic mode I get: Quote: hdparm -M /dev/sda
/dev/sda: HDIO_GET_ACOUSTIC failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device This does not leave me feeling confident that trying to set the value via hdparm is safe. Does anyone know if using hdparm to set values on a SATA drive is safe, or if there is a different utility for sata drives? I'm on R5D1. Thanks! Marc |
Author: | Liv2Cod [ Sun May 06, 2007 12:36 am ] |
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I don't know the answer to your question, but oddly enough I got the same error the other day when I tried to set 32-bit mode "on" for my drive. Mine is a PATA drive with one of those little SATA converter boards on it, so I wrote it off to weird hardware. Now I'm wondering if hdparm works on SATA drives in general. Joe |
Author: | marc.aronson [ Sun May 06, 2007 8:45 am ] |
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I've read various things about the usability of hdparm w/ SATA drives, all of which leaves me feeling that the answer is "it depends". I'll keep digging. I (thought) I saw a reply from TJC about trying out smartctl, but I don't see his post anymore. Not sure what happened there, but I tried out smartctl as it's already installed on R5D1. I am able to use smartctl to query the drive but I can't find a way to set the acoustic management setting with that utility. To get it to report back stuff I had to use the "-d ata" flag. Marc |
Author: | tjc [ Sun May 06, 2007 9:28 am ] |
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I killed my earlier post since it didn't contain any useful information. Seems that smartctl doesn't work on SATA drives (at least not on my WD5000KS-55MNB0) and searching didn't turn up any obvious alternatives. |
Author: | marc.aronson [ Sun May 06, 2007 9:31 pm ] |
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Glad to hear that I wasn't hallucinating ![]() Actually, I think you were right the first time that smartctl will work with SATA drives. The issue I had was that I can't find a way to change the acustic parameter with it. FWIW -- here is what I get when I query the drive: Code: root@mythhd:~# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST3500630AS Serial Number: 9QG0K1DQ Firmware Version: 3.AAK Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sun May 6 20:28:35 2007 PDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 430) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 163) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 110 097 006 Pre-fail Always - 148697156 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 18 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 066 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 4898855 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 387 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 18 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 059 057 045 Old_age Always - 723779625 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 041 043 000 Old_age Always - 41 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/20) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 066 061 000 Old_age Always - 239091199 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. |
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