Re: Smartmontools

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:36:09 -0700
On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:

> Other than nooptions ATA_CAM, is there a fix or circumvention to allow 
> smartmontools to work correctly under 9.0 and -CURRENT?
> 
> slippy# smartctl -a /dev/ad0
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE i386] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> 
> error sending CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Unable to get CAM device list
> /dev/ad0: Unable to detect device type
> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
> 
> Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
> 
> slippy# 
> 
> 

I can't say for certain, but my guess is that you've been victimized by recent changes to CAM headers.  Have you tried recompiling to get everything in sync?

Scott
Received on Thu Feb 02 2012 - 04:36:12 UTC

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