[smartmontools-support] smartmontools enhancement for cciss devices.

[Brace, D. <da...@hp...>]

We have many customers who have hundreds of disk drives that are using smartmontools to monitor drive health.

But they want to see an enhancement to smartmontols to make it easier to use.

Typically a customer has a mixture of SAS and SATA drives installed and would like to be able to run
smartmontools without having to know in advance if the drive is SAS or SATA.

Currently if the drive is SATA they have to use -device=sat+cciss,N and -device=cciss,N for SAS drives.

In the past I had added code to smartmontools that enabled it to determine if the drive was SAS or SATA and issue the appropriate command automatically.

Would this enhancement be acceptable?

If so, who would make these enhancements?

Thanks,
Don Brace