Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-2+lenny1 Severity: normal smartd fails to work with SATA drives which are behind a Dell MPT SAS RAID controller (smartd does work correctly with SAS drives, and smartctl works correctly with both SATA and SAS):
Device: /dev/sg0, opened Device: /dev/sg0, found in smartd database. Device: /dev/sg0, enabled SMART Automatic Offline Testing. Device: /dev/sg0, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Device: /dev/sg1, opened Device: /dev/sg1, found in smartd database. Device: /dev/sg1, enabled SMART Automatic Offline Testing. Device: /dev/sg1, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Device: /dev/sg0, not capable of SMART self-check Sending warning via mail to root ... Warning via mail to root: successful Error SMART Values Read failed: Operation not permitted Device: /dev/sg0, failed to read SMART Attribute Data Sending warning via mail to root ... Warning via mail to root: successful Error SMART Error Self-Test Log Read failed: Operation not permitted Device: /dev/sg0, Read SMART Self Test Log Failed Sending warning via mail to root ... Warning via mail to root: successful Error SMART Error Log Read failed: Operation not permitted Device: /dev/sg0, Read SMART Error Log Failed Sending warning via mail to root ... Warning via mail to root: successful It's probably this bug: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools/5210 -- Package-specific info: Ouput of /usr/share/bug/smartmontools: # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional package for mailx ren smartmontools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org