SOLVED smartctl not working as expected

[Ganzir]

Hello I just finished buidling my second NAS and before putting data onto it I wanted to submit all drives to a smarctl test.

However when I enter:

Code:

smartctl –t long /dev/ada0

I get the following:

Code:

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

ERROR: smartctl takes ONE device name as the final command-line argument.
You have provided 3 device names:
–t
long
/dev/ada0

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

I am no pro at all when it comes to FreeBSD, can someone tell me, what the problem might be.

Thanks in advance.

 

[JohnDigital]

do camcontrol devlist

In my system these are ada0, ada1 etc are SSDs and they give me the same message as yours. However the test run in the same way against a disk at /dev/da0 etc works as expected

 

[JohnDigital]

And now strangely they all work

 

[Ganzir]

You are right my disks ars SSDs, however, /da0 leads to the same behaviour:

Code:

root@truenas[~]# camcontrol devlist
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ada0)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,ada1)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,ada2)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (pass3,ada3)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,ada4)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (pass5,ada5)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (pass6,ada6)
<Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM04B6Q>  at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (pass7,ada7)
root@truenas[~]# smartctl –t long /dev/da0
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

ERROR: smartctl takes ONE device name as the final command-line argument.
You have provided 3 device names:
–t
long
/dev/da0

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

 

[winnielinnie]

There’s something strange about the hyphens being used in your post. Compare the following two lines. They look identical, but they’re actually different. Did you originally happen to copy-paste the command from a webpage or forum post the first time you tried it?

Similar, but completely different (look at the hyphens):
smartctl –t long /dev/ada0
smartctl -t long /dev/ada0


Some things that can cause this:

• Using a virtual keyboard
• Copying and pasting the command

 

[Ganzir]

Thank you very much winnielinnie, you are a genius, that was the problem.