Re: [smartmontools-support]Re: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Eduard M. <mar...@ro...>]

Actually, I thought I had code in there to handle this case.

The implementation of ata_command_interface() has conditional
compilation code that should check for the existence of "ATAREQUEST",
which was added post FreeBSD 5.1  If not found, it should print out a
warning indicating that the kernel version is not supported.

I happen to have a VMWare instance with FreeBSD 4.7, and will attempt to
improv the support (in terms of detecting and reporting
incompatibilities).

Ed

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:57, Fr=E9d=E9ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> You need to run it on 5.x. See the documentation
>=20
> Since we always get such reports (and there are others at
> http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3D18319),
> can't something be added to smartctl and smartd to report that
> it only supports 5.x ?
>=20
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roman Danielis wrote:
>=20
> > I compile smartmontools 5.30 on FreeBSD 4.7 by means of ports.
> > When I run '/usr/local/sbin/smartctl -i /dev/ad0' it reports this:
> >
> > Smartctl open device: /dev/ad0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > I use this filesystems:
> >
> > /dev/ad0s1a   6727032  4804188 1384682    78%    /
> > /dev/ad2s1e  76926344 64971022 5801216    92%    /vol1

--=20
Eduard Martinescu <mar...@ro...>