[smartmontools-support] Incomplete info with 5.37 code

[Joe K. <kr...@ni...>]

I just posted a message about a Hitachi drive reporting SMART as
supported but disabled, but which does not respond to commands to enable
SMART. The 5.37 code only says "Probable ATA device behind a SAT layer",
but "-d sat" does not work.

I can use "-d scsi" in the new driver to get some information, but it is
missing the Device identity. A summaryfollows. The first exampel comes
from the OS, SLES10 smartmontools-5.33-20.2. The latter two come from
smartmontools-5.37.


$ /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [ia64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA      HDT722525DLA380  Version: A96A
Serial number:       VDS41BT4E9AJ3J
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Mon Dec 10 17:32:09 2007 EST
Device supports SMART and is Disabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Error Counter logging not supported

Error Events logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging


$ ./smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [ia64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/


Probable ATA device behind a SAT layer
Try an additional '-d ata' or '-d sat' argument.


$ ./smartctl -d scsi -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [ia64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Serial number:       VDS41BT4E9AJ3J
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Mon Dec 10 17:32:21 2007 EST
Device supports SMART and is Disabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging