Description of problem: smartctl should detect local disks by itself and not need extra options to specify the hardware to make it more user friendly. regards, Florian La Roche Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Sorry, but I don't understand the requirement... You don't like the '-d' option or you don't want to specifiy the device itself? If the first then smartctl is able to autodetect the disk type for most common devices. If the second then sorry, but no. Most commonly I want to check status of a particular drive and/or launch a SMART test for it. I don't like the idea of smartctl touching my usb flash disks or automatically start tests for all local drives. It's superuser-only tool and minimizing risk of accidents is worth of little uncomfort. And smartctl is quite user-friendly in comparison with some others in /sbin and /usr/sbin.
At least sata devices should be scanned without adding an extra -d option, I agree that usb scanning should be off per default. regards, Florian La Roche
If your SATA disk is not detected by smartctl, then it's a bug indeed, because smartmontools since ver. 5.37 are supposed to detect SATA disks automatically (without '-d' option). On my system it looks like this: [root@testmachine ~]# smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P Serial Number: S0DFJ1HL497216 Firmware Version: ZM100-34 User Capacity: 160,000,000,000 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Thu May 31 09:12:21 2007 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled What version of smartmontools do you use? If it's 5.37, then could you please provide output of "smartctl -a" (with and without "-d ata") on that device?
It works on my system and without more information I can't do anything about this.