Re: [smartmontools-support] debugging smartctl with -r ioctl

[John H. <jo...@ha...>]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Alex Samorukov wrote:

> On 04/05/2013 11:54 AM, John Haskey wrote:
>>
>> I understand what the code is doing. The question is why does every
>> ioctl after the one that is skipped report the same error? Look at
>> this abridged output here:
>>
>> http://haskey.com/johnh/misc/smart6_abridged.txt
>>
>> The fourth reported ioctl gets the ATA return descriptor not supported
>> message and then so does every ioctl following it.
> It should not affect actual output, because return code is 0. I will fix
> this bogus message, but i don?t think that it may cause any real issues.
>

Thanks!  I'm getting closer to figuring out where my array is getting 
broken.  After a certain command in a certain situation (not entirely 
clear just yet) the drive being tested starts generating command timeouts 
and is removed from the array.

---john.