SMART data from ICY Dock caddy?

P

Pete

Hi

I have a 320GB drive in an Icy Dock caddy, system says it is physical
drive1. However, when I try and get SMART data for that drive, I get
the information for physical drive 0 a 120GB drive.

Any ideas what is happening?

Many thanks
 
P

Pete

Rod said:
How are you getting the SMART data ?

What does Everest show ?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Initially I was using my own code, that worked for my C drive but not
the new F drive in the caddy, thinking it was my error I then tried
someone else code:http://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magwmi.asp

Same responce.

So then I tried http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
In the past this has worked fine, but now comes up with two entries for
my c drive in the drop down selector.. one with a -1 the other with a
-2

The caddie is connected to the second sata connector on my A7N8X mobo
 
A

Arno Wagner

Previously Pete said:
I have a 320GB drive in an Icy Dock caddy, system says it is physical
drive1. However, when I try and get SMART data for that drive, I get
the information for physical drive 0 a 120GB drive.
Any ideas what is happening?

No idea, but it is very likely not the ICY Dock's fault.
Cab you pist the SMART data here?

Arno
 
P

Pete

Arno said:
No idea, but it is very likely not the ICY Dock's fault.
Cab you pist the SMART data here?

Arno

first drive selected gives:

Drive 0 SMART enabled

IDE REGISTERS:
Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xA0
Command: 0xEC

DRIVE INFORMATION:
Serial Number: Y41MEJLE
FirmWare Rev: YAR51BW0
Model Number: Maxtor 6Y120M0
Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383 Cur Heads: 16 Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: NA Bytes per sector: NA
Gen Config: 64 Buffer Type: 3 Buffer Size: 15872
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0 More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 4 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 512 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 240121728
Mult. Sector Stuff: 256 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 1031

**********************************************************************************

with second drive selected:


Drive 1 SMART enabled

IDE REGISTERS:
Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xB0
Command: 0xEC

DRIVE INFORMATION:
Serial Number: Y41MEJLE
FirmWare Rev: YAR51BW0
Model Number: Maxtor 6Y120M0
Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383 Cur Heads: 16 Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: NA Bytes per sector: NA
Gen Config: 64 Buffer Type: 3 Buffer Size: 15872
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0 More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 4 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 512 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 240121728
Mult. Sector Stuff: 256 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 1031
 
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Arno Wagner

Ok, first if all these are the same drive, check the serial numbers.
Second, this is a 120GB drive. The serial number is for a 120GB
drive (manufacture 2003, I think). The mdoel number if for a 120GB drive.
So I have to ask, what makes you think this would be a 320GB drive?

Arno

first drive selected gives:
Drive 0 SMART enabled
IDE REGISTERS:
Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xA0
Command: 0xEC
DRIVE INFORMATION:
Serial Number: Y41MEJLE
FirmWare Rev: YAR51BW0
Model Number: Maxtor 6Y120M0
Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383 Cur Heads: 16 Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: NA Bytes per sector: NA
Gen Config: 64 Buffer Type: 3 Buffer Size: 15872
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0 More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 4 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 512 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 240121728
Mult. Sector Stuff: 256 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 1031

with second drive selected:

Drive 1 SMART enabled
 
P

Pete

I know there the same drive :(

That is my problem. I have 2 drives, but when ever I try and select the
second drive (the 320GB) in SMART data programs I have tried, I get the
info for the first disk only.

You can see from what I have posted, which is the output from the
passmark disk check program that one says 'drive 0' the othe 'drive 1'.
 
P

Pete

BTW

The Everest program does the same thing, it shows both drives under the
'physical drives' section but under the SMART section shows the first
drive twice....
 
A

Arno Wagner

Previously Pete said:
I know there the same drive :(
That is my problem. I have 2 drives, but when ever I try and select the
second drive (the 320GB) in SMART data programs I have tried, I get the
info for the first disk only.

Are your SMART programms SATA compaatible? SATA is often configured
as removable storage and you might just address the wrong device type...
You can see from what I have posted, which is the output from the
passmark disk check program that one says 'drive 0' the othe 'drive 1'.

Something wrong with the software, IMO.
On my other PC that only has one drive, it only offeres that drive to
select.

Good cross-ckeck. So definitely broken software.

Well, I only do this under Linux. SATA SMART there requires a Kernel
= 2.6.16 (pretty new) and the option '-d ata' to 'smartctl', since
SATA is treated aas SCSI under Linux. XP also does something different,
since it lists my SATA drive as removable.

Arno
 
A

Arno Wagner

Previously Pete said:
The Everest program does the same thing, it shows both drives under the
'physical drives' section but under the SMART section shows the first
drive twice....

Ok, in that case the basic Problem may be with Windows. Does not surprise
me.

Arno
 
F

Folkert Rienstra

Pete said:
I know there the same drive :(

That is my problem.

You have to excuse babblemouth.
He didn't get any sleep today, (as you may have noticed from his slurring).
 
R

Rod Speed

Pete said:
The Everest program does the same thing, it shows both drives under
the 'physical drives' section but under the SMART section shows the
first drive twice....

What happens with smartctl from a bootable linux CD like knoppix ?

That would distinguish between some weirdity
with the motherboard chipset and the OS.
 

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