Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-08 Thread Bruce Allen
OK, I see the problem. Smartd was set up with the logic that if a user put '-d ata' then only ATA devices would be scanned, NOT including traditional SATA names. For now, the only workaround I can suggest is to NOT use DEVICESCAN. Just explicitly list each device, one device per line.

Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.08.1215 +0200]: I'm not sure why smartd did not try to scan SCSI devices. Could you remove the '-d ata' to confirm that without this, it WILL scan SCSI devices? (This won't fix the problem but at least helps me to isolate it.) Without

Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-08 Thread Bruce Allen
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Guido Guenther wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:42:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: 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

Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-08 Thread Bruce Allen
DEVICESCAN has several issues and should be reimplemented using sysfs (any takers?). I personally specify the drives explicitly in /etc/smartd.conf. Nevertheless the bug is a valid one. Bruce, do you have any suggestions? The fix for this problem is not 'clean'. It's going to require a

Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
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)

Bug#386248: fails to start with IDE CD drives scanned before SATA disks

2006-09-06 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:42:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: 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 DEVICESCAN has several