See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable
BillK On 7/5/24 09:00, Dale wrote:
Howdy, I ordered another hard drive, yup, I keep filling them up. Anyway, it looks like a shucked drive but may not be. I tried to find out if there is a way to know if a drive has that pin 3 problem or not but no luck. It did power up after I hooked it to a old system with a molex to sata power adapter. Then the SMART tests went wonky, bad wonky. This is what it showed. NAS2 ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.8.7-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST16000NM000D Serial Number: ZVTC8V09 LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e79eb73e Firmware Version: SN03 User Capacity: 16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528 ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Mon May 6 15:51:00 2024 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Read SMART Data failed: scsi error device not ready === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Status command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN! SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read. Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error device not ready Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error device not ready Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error device not ready Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported NAS2 ~ # Does anyone know what it looks like when a drive has that PWDIS feature and the drive is disabled? Does it look like that? The drive would not power up at all on my main rig or my NAS box but with the molex to sata cable on the old Dell Inspiron, NAS@ box, it did power up but was really slow to be seen and SMART shows the above. Either way, PWDIS feature or just a DOA drive, it won't work in my main rig which is where I want it to go. I requested a refund. I'll buy one I can do more research on next time. I'm mostly just curious on this. I've never actually had a drive with the PWDIS pin. Other than I've read they don't power up at all, I have no idea how they respond or if they respond at all. I figure someone on the list has seen one. If this is how they behave, I'll know next time. If they just off period, then a bad drive. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
