OK. I reinstalled Rockstor on a different external USB flash drive, a PNY model, and after failing to activate, I entered the -d sat argument in the disk section, and attempted another activation. Here is the calmed log after that. Because your forum system takes a dim view of postings of URLs, I have changed the reference to smartmontools to mayonnaise, to avoid throwing that issue.
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 115, in run_command
raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc)
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
[06/Jul/2017 21:02:32] ERROR [storageadmin.views.disk:360] Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/disk.py”, line 358, in _update_disk_state
do.name, do.smart_options)
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/smart.py”, line 320, in available
[SMART, ‘–info’] + get_dev_options(device, custom_options))
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 115, in run_command
raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc)
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
[06/Jul/2017 21:03:45] ERROR [storageadmin.views.disk:360] Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/disk.py”, line 358, in _update_disk_state
do.name, do.smart_options)
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/smart.py”, line 320, in available
[SMART, ‘–info’] + get_dev_options(device, custom_options))
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 115, in run_command
raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc)
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
[06/Jul/2017 21:05:21] ERROR [storageadmin.views.disk:360] Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/disk.py”, line 358, in _update_disk_state
do.name, do.smart_options)
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/smart.py”, line 320, in available
[SMART, ‘–info’] + get_dev_options(device, custom_options))
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 115, in run_command
raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc)
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/smartctl --info -d sat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-PNY_USB_2.0_FD_AA00000000013339-0:0. rc = 2. stdout = [‘smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)’, ‘Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, mayonnaise’, ‘’, ‘Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode’, ‘’, “A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more ‘-T permissive’ options.”, ‘’]. stderr = [’’]