Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98376
smartd misses /dev/hdm
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:02:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030619 Description of problem: smartd fills the syslog with errors about being unable to open() SCSI devices up to /dev/sdz, but it stops IDE scanning at /dev/hdl, missing two of my hard disks named /dev/hdm and /dev/hdo. Any chance of extending smartd such that it goes up to /dev/hdt, which seems to be the last hd device in /dev, and of silencing the errors that needlessly fill not only the syslog, but also the LogWatch summary? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get a machine with 8 IDE channels and install a disk in the last such channel 2.Start smartd 3.Look at the syslog Actual Results: It didn't even try to look for /dev/hdo or /dev/hdm Expected Results: It should go up to /dev/hdt. Additional info:
(1) You can stop smartd from scanning at all, by creating /etc/smartd.conf. Please see man smartd and man smartd.conf (2) I did't realize that IDE devices could extend beyone 12 (/dev/hda-/dev/hdl). If no config file is given, we can trivially modify it to scan beyone /dev/hdl. How many additional devices are needed? (3) If you want to only scan ATA and not SCSI, you can use DEVICESCAN -d ata in /etc/smartd.conf (4) I'm not sure what version of smartmontools is currently in Fedora. I suggest upgrading to 5.20 or 5.21. See http://smartmontools.sf.net
IDE can go upto 20 disks...
OK, I'll fix it in smartmontools release 5.22. We'll scan 20 devices /dev/hda-t. Bruce
Thanks, I have set up a smartd.conf a long time ago to work around the bug, but I still try DEVICESCAN every now and then to see whether the default scanning doesn't cover all devices it should. Thanks for fixing this!
Somewhat off topic: I do a search query of bugzilla for smartctl,smartd, smartmontools,smartsuite every couple of days. This is the first time that I got your three-month old bug report in the response. Any idea why? Was bugzilla just updated and a search bug got fixed?
It was originally filed against a private alpha release. I only changed it to Fedora Core and opened it up today.
This has now been fixed, and will be in the upcoming smartmontools 5.22 release. If you would like to test it, please download the code from the SourceForge CVS pserver - instructions are at http://smartmontools.sf.net/
Erhm... kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora was updated to 5.21, so it still doesn't have the fix :-(
This is fixed in the smartmontools 5.22 release. I am sure it will migrate to Fedora reasonably soon.
It's fixed in rawhide, and probably has been for quite a while. Thanks,