Re: [smartmontools-support]DEVICESCAN problems with smartmontools-5.23

[Alexander B. <le...@st...>]

Bruce Allen wrote:
> What's going wrong on your system is that the functions:
>   make_device_names(&devlist,type)
> is returning NO devices for either type==ATA or type==SCSI.
> 
> Could you please tell us:
> (1) are you using linux, freebsd, or solaris?

I'm using Linux:
$ uname -a
Linux barney.domanig.kloburg.at 2.4.18-4SGI_XFS_1.1_usbdnet #1 Sat Jul 
20 13:47:25 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

> (2) if linux, are you using devfs?

No. The root-filesystem (including /dev) is xfs.

> (3) if using devfs, what does 'ls /dev' show on your system?

$ ls /proc/ide/
drivers  hda  hdc  ide0  ide1  via

$ cat /proc/ide/hd*/model
IC35L060AVER07-0
TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B

smartd from smartmontools-5.21-1 is able to find the ide-harddisk:

Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: smartd version 5.21 Copyright (C) 
2002-3 Bruce Allen
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Home page is 
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Opened configuration file 
/etc/smartd.conf
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf 
was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd 
database.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hda, enabled SMART 
Attribute Autosave.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hda, enabled SMART 
Automatic Offline Testing.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. 
Adding to "monitor" list.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/hdb, No such device or 
address, open() failed
[...]
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sym53c810a-0-<5,*>: target did not report 
SYNC.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a 
disc in the drive.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sym53c810a-0-<5,*>: target did not report 
SYNC.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney last message repeated 3 times
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, 
driver = 28
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, 
disk size 1GB.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel:  unable to read partition table
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sym53c810a-0-<5,*>: target did not report 
SYNC.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a 
disc in the drive.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sym53c810a-0-<5,*>: target did not report 
SYNC.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Device: /dev/sda, NOT READY (media 
absent, spun down); skip
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney kernel: sym53c810a-0-<5,*>: target did not report 
SYNC.
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Unable to register SCSI device 
/dev/sda at line 21 of file /etc/smartd.conf
[...]
Nov  2 10:56:35 barney smartd[635]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Nov  2 10:56:36 barney smartd[646]: smartd has fork()ed into background 
mode. New PID=646.
Nov  2 10:56:36 barney smartd: smartd startup succeeded

(sda is a ZIP-Drive with no disk present.)

Thanks for your help,
--leo
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