Hi Francois, first of all thanks for for all your feedback! On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:57:27AM -0400, Francois Marier wrote: > 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" Could you remove this one? It's not necessary and I just want to be sure it doesn't cause any trouble.
[..snip..] > /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) ...works on my test system without problems. > 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 Is this all 64bit or 64bit kernel 32bit userland? > 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 This looks weird. Doug, do you have any further insights? This is exactly the user I already forwarded you the sdparm output from. Cheers, -- Guido > 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]
