On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:20:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Does wheezy have a utility that can scan the sata bus, reporting on the > health of the hardware, doing it in such a way as to not trigger an > endless loop of resets for a device that may not have a good > interconnecting cable? > > I have a hot swap cage, 3 drive model, and the central pocket is still > not properly responding even with a new cable between it and the mobo's > array of sockets. As far as I know, there are no "active" devices in > this data path. Being able to scan for proper function might give a clue > where the problem lies.
smartmontools is the package; it has smartd and smartctl. Smartd looks for SMART error codes, and smartctl can identify drives, show current SMART tables, and start and report on drive self-tests. -dsr-
