Re: [smartmontools-support] SATA woes

[Guido G. <ag...@si...>]

Hi,
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:58:02PM +0200, Trollen Lord wrote:
> DEVICESCAN doesn't know how to distinguish SATA drives. It leads into it
> trying to use them as SCSI discs, which naturally fails. You have to do -d
> ATA for both smartd and smartctl. But if you do that categorically in the
> smartd.conf, then the things might break for some users (actual SCSI, behind
> 3ware etc).
Devicescan can be replaced by a shell script that scans /sysfs - this
would be much more reliable and intrusive. Care to send a patch?
Cheers,
 -- Guido