Re: [Smartmontools-support] smartctl and smartd

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Hi David,

Still waiting for your reply...

> 1. Support for /dev/hda and /dev/sda (or /dev/h* and /dev/s*) is
> hard-coded.  If one is in the /dev directory and uses hda or sda, the
> programs will fail silently.  Also, we don't use either: our disk
> device is /dev/cciss/c0d0 ...

I've fixed this.  You can now use arbitrary device paths.  The guessing
about device type is slightly more intelligent, and I've added two new
options -n (ATA) and -N (SCSI) for forcing device type.

I have not yet generated a release, but you can get the code from CVS by
using CVS tag RELEASE_5_0_30 if you'd like to try/test this.

> 3. If there is an initial error in attempting SMART, it should fail
> cleanly.
> 
> 4. If there is an error, then the output (Device: etc) doesn't
> necessarily print one to a line, but stacks on one line in some cases.
> 
> I patched my version of smartmon to fix most of these; interested?

Items 3 and 4 above are the only ones not yet fixed.  I am still
interested in having you do this. Please let me know.

Cheers,
	Bruce