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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000844 | SpeedFan | S.M.A.R.T. | public | 2007-04-16 01:12 | 2009-05-30 12:07 |
| Reporter | seidler | Assigned To | alfredo | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | suspended | ||
| OS | Windows | OS Version | XP and 2000 | ||
| Product Version | 4.32 | ||||
| Summary | 0000844: Second drive not appearing on SMART tab with some SATA controllers | ||||
| Description | Ever since I had SATA HDDs I wondered why SpeedFan screws up with them and I though it might just be my special system config. However, after reproducing the problem under 2000 as well as XP, with two different SATA controllers (SiI 3112 [onboard Abit NF7-s v2) and 3114 [PCI controller in SoftRAID5 mode on a PIIX4 board]) I think this is really a bug. Problem is: I have two SATA HDDs. They are correctly recognized but the only one shows up in the program. The SMART view is, to say the least, disturbing: it shows half of the data from drive 1, half from drive 2. It is as if the readout task writes the data read from both drives to the same places in memory. Temperatur shows only one. relevant SpeedFan startup messages: --- SMART Enabled for drive 0 Found ST380021A (80,0GB) SMART Enabled for drive 1 Found SAMSUNG SP1614C (320,1GB) SMART Enabled for drive 2 Found SAMSUNG SP1614C (160,0GB) --- | ||||
| Additional Information | An additional IDE HDD is detected and shown normally. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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| has duplicate | 0000705 | closed | alfredo | No SMART reading on second SATA hard disk |
| has duplicate | 0000848 | closed | alfredo | 3 drives detected but only 2 displayed |
| has duplicate | 0000502 | closed | alfredo | HD1 not available in S.M.A.R.T. panel while correctly detected |
| has duplicate | 0000461 | closed | alfredo | SMART Feature does not show identical 2nd hdd |
| has duplicate | 0000466 | closed | alfredo | 4 disk detected but 3 shown |
| has duplicate | 0000419 | closed | alfredo | SMART info is incorrect |
| has duplicate | 0000208 | closed | alfredo | Secondary disk on Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATA Raid Controller NOT DETECTED |
| has duplicate | 0000131 | closed | alfredo | S.M.A.R.T. cannot distinguish between two identical disk models |
| has duplicate | 0000053 | closed | alfredo | Both Sata HDs Detected, still 1st temp only |
| has duplicate | 0000112 | closed | alfredo | SMART |
| has duplicate | 0001057 | closed | alfredo | both SATA disks report same SMART attributes and temperature |
| has duplicate | 0001014 | closed | alfredo | SMART attributes are shown on summary readings but NOT on SMART and on temperatures |
| has duplicate | 0000519 | closed | alfredo | two identical Hitachi-IBM dives on an asus a7n8x deluxe onboard controller: the first is recognized randomly, the second never |
| has duplicate | 0000123 | closed | alfredo | Quite often the HD3 temp is not readed and SMART status is empty |
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Sorry, submitted too early. Meant to say: [Temperature shows only one] of the two SATA drives (plus the IDE drive). The messages are also wrong: the 320GB HDD is a WDC 3200KS. |
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Please, upload here (there is the UPLOAD FILE button), the result of the SEND REPORT button on SpeedFan's INFO tab, but be ready to discover that the bug is in the Sil drivers (you can read about this in several threads here). I found the same bug in several RAID controllers and I think that they all were derived from a single driver that originally contained the bug, but this is just a guessing. |
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The same bug, VIA VT8237 Integrated Serial ATA RAID controller (non-RAID mode). Log says: SMART Enabled for drive 3 Found HDT722525DLA380 (250,1GB) Bad Attributes Checksum ($A4) Bad Thresholds Checksum ($FC) SMART Enabled for drive 4 Found HDT722525DLA380 (320,1GB) Bad Attributes Checksum ($A4) Bad Thresholds Checksum ($FC) End of detection First HDD is Hitachi HDT722525DLA380, but the 320GB HDD is actually Seagate ST3320820AS. |
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Also I want to note that it seems to be a Speedfan issue, because Everest detects all hard drives correctly. |
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I can only speak for the VIA Southbridge VT8237 - I use 2 Satas from Samsung in non-raid-mod at the VT8237. After a long long search in the Internet I found this in the Viaarena-Forum. It was written by Member SaphireX You will only be able to SEE the Smart Status of the SATA connected to the Channel 0 on the VIA Controller if you use a windows based utility such as Everest Ultimate. Even if you use the SeaTools Diagnostic running on a floppy disk during boot you will only SEE (1) of the SATA's Smart Status. This does not mean that your 2nd SATA connected to Channel 1 is not reporting Smart Status but the data is not being forwarded from the controller most likely because the architecture of the controller is a PCI-ISA Bridge. Visa versa if you switched channels then one channel will report the Smart Status If you for instance you had 2 SATA's either standalone or in a RAID Array on the Promise-378 Controller both drives Smart Status will be available both in windows as well as by the SeaTools Diagnostic because the architecture of the Promise-376/378 Controllers is straight on the PCI Buss. The VIA RAID Tool if you installed it will accurately tell you the Smart Status as a simple OK when you click on Check All Disks from the VIA RAID Tool's toolbar. As far as other software that may reveal what the Smart Staus is in more detail Everest Ultimate is able to display the numerical Smart Status details of the SATA connected to the 1rst SATA port of the controller only. This is due to the architecture of the controller being on an ISA to PCI Buss Here is the Thread-Link http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=20&threadid=73953&highlight_key=y&keyword1=8237 So i think i can say it's not a bug in SpeedFan |
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WhiteStar, you are wrong. My old motherboard was Asus A8V (VIA K8T800 + VT8237). I had 2 SATA drives, SpeedFan showed one drive, Everest showed both. |
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Could you carefully look at what other softwares return for the drives? As far as I know, buggy drivers return the very same data for both drives. Speedfan double checks it and avoids showing bogus data. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2007-04-16 01:12 | seidler | New Issue | |
| 2007-04-16 01:20 | seidler | Note Added: 0002469 | |
| 2007-04-16 09:12 | alfredo | Note Added: 0002471 | |
| 2007-04-16 09:12 | alfredo | Status | assigned => acknowledged |
| 2007-04-17 22:00 | Vampik | Note Added: 0002493 | |
| 2007-05-09 13:22 | Vampik | Note Added: 0002527 | |
| 2007-06-09 03:33 | WhiteStar | Note Added: 0002583 | |
| 2007-06-09 06:40 | Vampik | Note Added: 0002584 | |
| 2007-06-12 18:13 | alfredo | Note Added: 0002586 | |
| 2008-05-11 13:07 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000705 |
| 2008-05-11 13:10 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000848 |
| 2008-05-11 13:11 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000502 |
| 2008-05-11 13:16 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000461 |
| 2008-05-11 13:17 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000466 |
| 2008-05-11 13:18 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000419 |
| 2008-05-11 13:18 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000208 |
| 2008-05-11 13:19 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000131 |
| 2008-05-11 13:20 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000053 |
| 2008-05-11 13:21 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000112 |
| 2008-05-11 16:14 | alfredo | Severity | major => minor |
| 2008-05-11 16:15 | alfredo | Summary | Unable to handle multiple SATA discs => Second drive not appearing on SMART tab with some SATA controllers |
| 2008-05-11 16:17 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0001057 |
| 2008-05-11 16:19 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0001014 |
| 2008-05-11 16:21 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000519 |
| 2008-05-14 11:41 | alfredo | Relationship added | has duplicate 0000123 |
| 2009-05-30 12:07 | alfredo | Status | acknowledged => closed |
| 2009-05-30 12:07 | alfredo | Resolution | open => suspended |
