Am 07.06.2011 09:35, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > On 06/07/2011 09:04 AM, Dave Seddon wrote: >> Here's an example of the nasty/QEMU output of smartmontools: >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> # smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg0 >> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-spcdn-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen >> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ >> >> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === >> Device Model: [No Information Found] >> Serial Number: [No Information Found] >> Firmware Version: � " >> Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] >> ATA Version is: 1 >> ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated >> Local Time is: Tue Jun 7 16:57:08 2011 UTC >> SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater. >> We will try to proceed in spite of this. >> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if >> SMART supported. >> Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE command. >> SMART ENABLE appeared to work! Continuing. >> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if >> SMART is enabled. >> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T >> permissive' options >> ------------------------------------------------------- > > Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation.
But this is scsi-disk - what does smartctl even try here? Kevin
