I got hit by this after a power outage cycled my file servers and presumably activated a previous automatic kernel update (the servers normally stay up for months at a time).
The kernel that is currently running is: Linux oban8 4.14.111-odroidxu4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 8 17:30:01 CEST 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux The temporary work-around documented on the Smartmontools Wiki worked for me (thanks for the link!), now I have to figure out how to make the change persistent on these ARM based systems :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1810215 Title: for Seagate USB drive enclosures, SAT (e.g. smartmontools) works on kernel 4.13 but not on 4.15 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1810215/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs