On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:38:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > O.k. I just double checked this on on a SATA system here and it works > without problems. Doug suggested you might be missing "-d ata" for your > scsi discs but this doesn't seem to be the case according to the bug > report. Could you doublecheck that you don't have DEVICESCAN in your > smartd.conf? Could you post smartd's syslog output please?
Here's my /etc/default/smartmontools: # Defaults for smartmontools initscript (/etc/init.d/smartmontools) # This is a POSIX shell fragment # list of devices you want to explicitly enable S.M.A.R.T. for # not needed if the device is monitored by smartd enable_smart="/dev/sda /dev/sdb" # uncomment to start smartd on system startup start_smartd=yes # uncomment to pass additional options to smartd on startup #smartd_opts="--interval 1800" My /etc/smartd.conf (all the rest is commented out): #DEVICESCAN -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner # First (primary) ATA/IDE hard disk. Monitor all attributes, enable # automatic online data collection, automatic Attribute autosave, and # start a short self-test every day between 2-3am, and a long self test # Saturdays between 3-4am. /dev/sda -d ata -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) /dev/sdb -d ata -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) Here's what I get in /var/log/syslog when I restart smartmontools: smartd[8064]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated smartd[8064]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0) smartd[14569]: smartd version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen smartd[14569]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ smartd[14569]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf smartd[14569]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sda, opened smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sda, found in smartd database. kernel: ata3: PIO error kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sda, could not enable SMART Attribute Autosave. kernel: ata3: PIO error kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sda, enable SMART Automatic Offline Testing failed. smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sdb, found in smartd database. kernel: ata4: PIO error kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sdb, could not enable SMART Attribute Autosave. kernel: ata4: PIO error kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sdb, enable SMART Automatic Offline Testing failed. smartd[14569]: Device: /dev/sdb, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. smartd[14569]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices smartd[14571]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=14571. smartd[14571]: file /var/run/smartd.pid written containing PID 14571 Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

