SMART Error Count counts Power Cycle

  • I have a SAMSUNG SSD 970 Evo Plus (NVMe) running internally in a ASUS PN42 (Intel N100) on OMV Release: 6.9.8-1.

    On every boot (power cycle) I get a warning (via e-mail), that the Error Count has increased. Actually it's the parameter "Error Information Log Entries:", which increases quite exactly parallel to "Power Cycles:".

    As also shown, there're no media or dara errors, so I would say: This brand new SSD is totally ok.

    Google mentions, the "Error Information Log Entry" may arise from an invalid command. I expect, chances to locate and suppress this command are quite low. Remaining options are:

    * stop smart monitoring this drive - bad idea

    * get a false warning on each startup (which occurs daily) - bad idea, but could possibly mitigated by an dedicated e-mail filter


    Are there better options? Is it possible to make the smart monitoring "smart" enough to ignore this special value/parameter?

    OMV 6.9 (Shaitan, 64 bit) as non-7/24-NAS on ASUS ExpertCenter PN42 with Intel N100

    Samsung M2-SSD 970 EVO Plus with EXT4 (system) and BTRFS (data), external USB3-M2-SSD (970 EVO Plus) with BTRFS (2nd data)

    Plugins: anacron, backup, diskstats, filebrowser, omvextrasorg, remotemount, resetperms, symlinks, wetty

  • chente

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  • Christian Franke from smartmontools have been working on this recently:
    https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1222

    According to this ticket it should be fixed. I still get this error on a freshly installed system with a healthy Samsung NVMe SSD.

    Is there anything that needs to be changed in the smartmontools configuration?

    The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:


    Device: /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1, number of Error Log entries increased from 348 to 349


    Device info:

    SAMSUNG MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1, S/N:*, FW:EXD70H1Q, NSID:1, 256 GB

  • OK so I got a response from Christian Franke from smartmontools:
    https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1222


    Apparantly the smartmontools version I am running on my omv6 is far too old.
    I havent looked into this yet, but it should be updated and then smartmontools wont complain about healthy nvme drives anymore! :D

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    OK so I got a response from Christian Franke from smartmontools:
    https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1222


    Apparantly the smartmontools version I am running on my omv6 is far too old.
    I havent looked into this yet, but it should be updated and then smartmontools wont complain about healthy nvme drives anymore! :D

    The problem here OMV relies on what the Debian project delivers. But with the switch to Debian 12 in OMV7 this package will get an update and a more recent version.

  • Sorry to bring up an old post but I am on 7.4.0-1 (Sandworm) on a pi 5 (kernel Linux 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712) and I seeing this issue - each reboot adds to the error counter and that appears to trigger a warning email via my SMART monitoring configuration.

    has this package been updated? If not, is there a way to manually update it outside of the normal raspberry pi os/debian release cycle? smartctl tells me I am on a 2022 build:

    Code
    smartctl --version
    smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [aarch64-linux-6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org



    Thanks!

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