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? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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