Package: smartmontools Version: 5.36-6 Severity: normal I have a system with hda/b IDE CD-ROM drives and /dev/sda-g as SATA drives. I use
DEVICESCAN -d ata -a -s (S/../.././02|L/../../7/04) -o on When I start smartd, this fails: smartd version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices Device: /dev/hda, opened Device: /dev/hda, packet devices [this device CD/DVD] not SMART capable Unable to register ATA device /dev/hda at line 108 of file /etc/smartd.conf Device: /dev/hdb, opened Device: /dev/hdb, packet devices [this device CD/DVD] not SMART capable Unable to register ATA device /dev/hdb at line 108 of file /etc/smartd.conf Unable to monitor any SMART enabled devices. Try debug (-d) option. Exiting... Undoubtedly, it should scan the SATA drives too. -- Package-specific info: Ouput of /usr/share/bug/smartmontools: # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.999.2-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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