Stephen Gran writes: > This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > > This one time, at band camp, Jeff Sheinberg said: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Since that current upgrade of the hdparm package, a bogus error > > > message is being printed to stderr for SCSI devices, > > > > > > # hdparm /dev/sdb > > > > > > /dev/sdb: > > > HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument > > > readonly = 0 (off) > > > readahead = 120 (on) > > > geometry = 527/255/63, sectors = 8467200, start = 0 > > > > > > note that the returned exit status is *correctly* set to zero. > > > > Yes, I see that in 5.6 & the just released 5.7, upstream changed the way > > that disk probing is handled. It used to be that some checks were just > > categorically not done for XT and SCSI disks. Now all checks are done, > > and the function just continues after printing what is supposed to be an > > informational message. > > The handling of this has gotten smarter in 5.9 (it is only supposed to > output the warning if you explicitly ask for multcount information). > Can you confirm that this is fixed?
Yes, this is fixed. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
