quiet - Asus F2A55-M - Debian
Hardware info on main page.
Just a liveusb boot.
Work log
2022-05-12: sda2 - the new drive 3 passed the Long Self Test.
2022-05-11: sda2 - apt - install smartmontools
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ sudo apt install smartmontools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: hunspell-gl-es hunspell-sv-se Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: gsmartcontrol smart-notifier The following NEW packages will be installed: smartmontools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 565 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,168 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 smartmontools amd64 7.2-1 [565 kB] Fetched 565 kB in 0s (3,026 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package smartmontools. (Reading database ... 218484 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../smartmontools_7.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking smartmontools (7.2-1) ... Setting up smartmontools (7.2-1) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/smartd.service → /lib/systemd/system/smartmontools.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/smartmontools.service → /lib/systemd/system/smartmontools .service. /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d returned 101, not running 'start smartmontools.service' Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
drives - from sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdX where X is a, b, c, d and so on
sda TOSHIBA HDWD110, s/n: 3844H61NS, fw: MS2OA8J0 (drive 0) sdb ST16000NM001G-2KK103, s/n: WL20SAGT, fw: SN04 (drive 1) sdc ST16000NM001G-2KK103, s/n: WL20T6D7, fw: SN04 (drive 2) sdd ST16000NM001G-2KK103, s/n: WL20TAVY, fw: SN04 (drive 3) sde ST16000NM001G-2KK103, s/n: ZL2K1NKS, fw: SN04 (drive 4)
2022-05-11: sda2 - SeaTools - drive 1, 2 and 4 all pass the Short selftest ("Short Self Test Passed"). Drive 3 fails both the Short ("Short Self Test Started" / "Short Self Test Aborted") and Long Self Test ("Long Self Test Failed"). Also firmware update (from SN04 to SN04) on drive 3 worked too.
2022-05-11: sda2 - try to install SeaTools
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ chmod u+x ~/dl/SeaToolsLinuxX64Installer.run tingo@kg-quiet:~$ sudo ~/dl/SeaToolsLinuxX64Installer.run ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the SeaTools Setup Wizard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please specify the directory where SeaTools will be installed. Installation Directory [/opt/SeaTools5]: ~/progs/SeaTools5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup is now ready to begin installing SeaTools on your computer. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please wait while Setup installs SeaTools on your computer. Installing 0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100% ######################################### ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup has finished installing SeaTools on your computer. Launch Application [Y/n]: tingo@kg-quiet:~$ qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: xcb. /root/progs/SeaTools5/exec-seatools-in-dir: line 4: 1547 Aborted "$seadoctorDir"/SeaTools
ok, it needs gui. Also it probably works better if installed in a directory my user has access to
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ sudo ~/dl/SeaToolsLinuxX64Installer.run ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the SeaTools Setup Wizard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please specify the directory where SeaTools will be installed. Installation Directory [/opt/SeaTools5]: /home/tingo/progs/SeaTools5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup is now ready to begin installing SeaTools on your computer. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please wait while Setup installs SeaTools on your computer. Installing 0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100% ######################################### ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup has finished installing SeaTools on your computer. Launch Application [Y/n]: n
Yes, at least I can launch it.
2022-05-11: sda2 - unpack Seagate firmware tools
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ mkdir -p ~/progs/seagate tingo@kg-quiet:~$ cd ~/progs/seagate tingo@kg-quiet:~/progs/seagate$ unzip ~/dl/ExosX16-Evans-STD-SATA-512E-SN04.zip Archive: /home/tingo/dl/ExosX16-Evans-STD-SATA-512E-SN04.zip creating: bootable tools/ inflating: bootable tools/About.SeaChest.txt inflating: bootable tools/SeaChest_RC_3.0.2_05-21-2021__14-15-15.usbBootMaker.exe creating: command line tools/ inflating: command line tools/About.SeaChest.txt creating: command line tools/SeaChest/ creating: command line tools/SeaChest/centos-7_aarch64/ inflating: command line tools/SeaChest/centos-7_aarch64/SeaChest_Firmware_aarch64-redhat-linux creating: command line tools/SeaChest/centos-7_x86_64/ inflating: command line tools/SeaChest/centos-7_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-redhat-linux inflating: command line tools/SeaChest/SeaChest_Firmware.txt creating: command line tools/SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/ inflating: command line tools/SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu creating: command line tools/SeaChest/Win64/ inflating: command line tools/SeaChest/Win64/SeaChest_Firmware_x64_windows.exe creating: firmware/ extracting: firmware/EN-SN04.CFS inflating: firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN04.LOD creating: firmware/previous firmware/ inflating: firmware/previous firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN03.LOD inflating: firmware/previous firmware/README-previous_firmware.txt creating: firmware/subrelease firmware/ inflating: firmware/subrelease firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SCB3.LOD inflating: firmware/subrelease firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SH03.LOD inflating: firmware/subrelease firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SH04.LOD inflating: firmware/subrelease firmware/README-subrelease_firmware.txt inflating: READMEFIRST-ExosX16-Evans-SN04-SATA STD 512E firmware update.pdf
2022-05-11: sda2 - reboot, a new kernel is in
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ uname -a Linux kg-quiet 5.10.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.113-1 (2022-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2022-05-11: sda2 - apt - upgrade
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: hunspell-gl-es hunspell-sv-se Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-5.10.0-14-amd64 The following packages will be upgraded: firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb firefox-esr-l10n-nb-no gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gzip libavcodec58 libavfilter7 libavformat58 libavresample4 libavutil56 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 liblzma5 libpostproc55 libswresample3 libswscale5 libtiff5 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 linux-compiler-gcc-10-x86 linux-image-amd64 linux-kbuild-5.10 linux-libc-dev tzdata xz-utils zlib1g 25 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 145 MB of archives. After this operation, 312 MB of additional disk space will be used. [..] Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-14-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-14-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-13-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-13-amd64 Found FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11 on /dev/sda5 Found FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE on /dev/sda7 Found unknown Linux distribution on /dev/sda8 Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done [..] Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
check EFI bootorder
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 5 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0001,0000,0003 Boot0000* Debian Boot0001* FreeBSD Boot0002* rEFInd Boot Manager Boot0003* UEFI OS
bootorder is ok.
2022-05-11: sda2 - Debian 11 is installed on this partition
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 11.3
kernel
tingo@kg-quiet:~$ uname -a Linux kg-quiet 5.10.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.106-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2022-04-17: Seagate has linux tools, so after getting the zip file, extracting it and setting permissions I can do
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --scan ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 12:58:58 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== Vendor Handle Model Number Serial Number FwRev ATA /dev/sg0 ST1000DM003-9YN162 Z1D1PQ93 CC4C ATA /dev/sg1 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20SAGT SN03 ATA /dev/sg2 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20T6D7 SN03 ATA /dev/sg3 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20TAVY SN03 ATA /dev/sg4 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 ZL2K1NKS SN03 ATA /dev/sg5 ST3000DM001-1ER166 W5005NJ0 CC43 SMI /dev/sg6 USB DISK AA00000000021809 1100
upgrade the first drive
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --device /dev/sg1 --downloadFW ../firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN04.LOD ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 13:05:38 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== /dev/sg1 - ST16000NM001G-2KK103 - WL20SAGT - ATA .................................................................................. Firmware Download successful Firmware Download time (s): 5.01 Average time/segment (ms): 61.09 Activate Time (s): 4.97 New firmware version is SN04
upgrade the second drive
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --device /dev/sg2 --downloadFW ../firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN04.LOD ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 13:07:28 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== /dev/sg2 - ST16000NM001G-2KK103 - WL20T6D7 - ATA .................................................................................. Firmware Download successful Firmware Download time (s): 5.22 Average time/segment (ms): 63.63 Activate Time (s): 4.85 New firmware version is SN04
upgrade the third drive
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --device /dev/sg3 --downloadFW ../firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN04.LOD ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 13:08:12 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== /dev/sg3 - ST16000NM001G-2KK103 - WL20TAVY - ATA .................................................................................. Firmware Download successful Firmware Download time (s): 4.91 Average time/segment (ms): 59.83 Activate Time (s): 4.87 New firmware version is SN04
upgrade the fourth drive
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --device /dev/sg4 --downloadFW ../firmware/EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN04.LOD ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 13:08:55 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== /dev/sg4 - ST16000NM001G-2KK103 - ZL2K1NKS - ATA .................................................................................. Firmware Download successful Firmware Download time (s): 5.29 Average time/segment (ms): 64.53 Activate Time (s): 5.26 New firmware version is SN04
check
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ sudo SeaChest/ubuntu-20.04_x86_64/SeaChest_Firmware_x86_64-linux-gnu --scan ========================================================================================== SeaChest_Firmware - Seagate drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved SeaChest_Firmware Version: 3.0.0-2_2_1 X86_64 Build Date: Apr 27 2021 Today: Sun Apr 17 13:09:31 2022 User: root ========================================================================================== Vendor Handle Model Number Serial Number FwRev ATA /dev/sg0 ST1000DM003-9YN162 Z1D1PQ93 CC4C ATA /dev/sg1 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20SAGT SN04 ATA /dev/sg2 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20T6D7 SN04 ATA /dev/sg3 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 WL20TAVY SN04 ATA /dev/sg4 ST16000NM001G-2KK103 ZL2K1NKS SN04 ATA /dev/sg5 ST3000DM001-1ER166 W5005NJ0 CC43 SMI /dev/sg6 USB DISK AA00000000021809 1100
looks good.
2022-04-17: I needed to upgrade the firmware on the Exos 16 drives, so I booted a Debian 11.3 liveUSB, created a user and got to it.
tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ cat /etc/debian_version 11.3 tingo@debian:~/dl/command line tools$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.106-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux