Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I get these repeated warnings in the log of my home server:
<3.2> 2020-08-01T17:17:14.068115+02:00 Isengard smartd 5945 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], failed to read SMART Attribute Data [..] But the thing is, smartctl can read that disk just fine: [..] <3.6> 2020-08-01T15:47:04.119302+02:00 Isengard smartd 5945 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], found in smartd database: WDC HGST Ultrastar He10 [..] <3.6> 2020-08-01T16:17:12.489203+02:00 Isengard smartd 5945 - - Device: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 [SAT], not capable of SMART self-check [..] The configuration is:
Isengard:~ # cat /etc/smartd.conf | egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" [..] /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_32544B5354325344-0:0 -d removable -a -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Book_25EE_37484B53554B424A-0:0 -d removable -a -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) Isengard:~ #
First, add a newline at the end of the file ;) Well, SMART-over-USB has quirks. Try '-d sat' in addition to '-d removable'. And BTW: '-S on' should only needed once (if ever). So try this instead of above two: /dev/[..] -d removable -d sat -a -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) HTH, -dnh -- OTOH, it turned out that when the customer was a church with a Xenix box, having to talk them into a triple-six chmod was a *bit* of an issue. -- Anthony de Boer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org