smartd issue with FC2 and latest FC2 kernel

[Mitsuho Iizuka]

Hi,

From: Michael Mansour <micoots at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: smartd issue with FC2 and latest FC2 kernel
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:39:09 +1100 (EST)

> Now changing to this:
> 
> /dev/sda -H -m support at npgx.com.au
> /dev/sdb -H -m support at npgx.com.au
> 
> produces this:

--- snip snip -----

> Dec  4 01:33:41 server smartd[17922]: Device:
> /dev/sda, opened
> Dec  4 01:33:41 server kernel: program smartd is using
> a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
> Dec  4 01:33:41 server last message repeated 2 times
> Dec  4 01:33:41 server smartd[17922]: Device:
> /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
> Dec  4 01:33:41 server kernel: program smartd is using
> a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I had the same smartd message regarding my SCSI-1&2 drives. SCSI-1&2
drives don't seem to have self monitoring&analysing mechanism. And you
will find smartd supports only ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3
hard drives by 'man smartd'. So confirm your scsi hard drives being
those latest(?) scsi drives. The message above indicates you have *OLD
type scsi1or2 dirve*. If you have *OLD* type scsi, smartd does not
seems to work well. For those cases, I mean comment out only old
drive(scsi) entries or stop smartd because smartd has no effect about
those old drives anyway, perhaps.

// M.Iizuka