Re: smartd fails to monitor disks connected to an ASUS PIKE 2008 card

Peter van Hoof wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 disks connected to an ASUS PIKE 2008 controller that I would like to
> monitor with smartd. The PIKE card works only as a SATA controller and passes
> the disks straight through (i.e., no RAID is set up). If I try to look at one of
> those disks with smartctl, I get perfectly normal looking output, e.g.:
>
> # smartctl -a /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_6VP0PCXC
> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.9.7-1-desktop] (SUSE RPM)
> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
> Device Model:     ST31000528AS
> .... etc ....
>
> when I try to include this disk in /etc/smartd.conf, the daemon fails to start
> with error 16, and I get the error message:
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_6VP0PCXC, not ATA, no IDENTIFY DEVICE
> Structure
>
> This is confusing to me since smartctl clearly identifies the disk as ATA, so I
> wonder if this is a bug in smartd? Is there a workaround to start monitoring
> these 3 disks?

Please provide the smartd.conf file.

Thanks,
Christian


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