'smartctl' release 7.1 does not report 'Error Counter logging'
Issue
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After migrating the systems from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8.6, the smartctl command is no longer showing 'Error Counter logging' for Samsung PM1643a SSD disks:
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda [...] === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Current Drive Temperature: 36 C Drive Trip Temperature: 71 C Elements in grown defect list: 0 Error Counter logging not supported <--- Device does not support Self Test logging
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The RHEL 6 and upstream smartmontools package shows following 'Error counter log' information:
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda [...] === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Percentage used endurance indicator: 2% Current Drive Temperature: 36 C Drive Trip Temperature: 71 C Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 10522:47 Manufactured in week 02 of year 2020 Accumulated start-stop cycles: 226 Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 0 Accumulated load-unload cycles: 0 Elements in grown defect list: 0 Error counter log: <----- Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 0 0 0 0 0 31967.069 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 6210021.542 0 Non-medium error count: 21 Pending defect count:0 Pending Defects
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Samsung PM1643a SSD disk (SAMSUNG MZILT15THALA/007 GXA2)
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