Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 1/16/24 23:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> One of these mails from a thread in december reveals that the three
> unique serial numbers GSTD02TB230102, GST02TBG221146, GSTG02TB230206
> each come with a different version of "1C0", "7A0", "5A0", respectively.
>    https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg799307.html
> That's unexpected, too, as the disk properties look identical elsewise.


Thank you for locating the lshw(1) output.  It appears to have been run 
when one Gigastone SSD was on the motherboard SATA controller and four 
Gigastone SSD's were on the 6-port HBA:

2024-01-17 08:58:54 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ egrep 'sata|disk|product|version|serial' gene-heskett-coyote-lshw.out 
| grep -B 1 -A 2 Gigastone
              *-disk:1
                   product: Gigastone SSD
                   version: 7A0
                   serial: GST02TBG221146
--
              *-disk:0
                   product: Gigastone SSD
                   version: 7A0
                   serial: GST02TBG221146
--
              *-disk:1
                   product: Gigastone SSD
                   version: 5A0
                   serial: GSTG02TB230206
--
              *-disk:2
                   product: Gigastone SSD
                   version: 5A0
                   serial: GSTG02TB230206
--
              *-disk:3
                   product: Gigastone SSD
                   version: 1C0
                   serial: GSTD02TB230102


David