Re: How soon do new drives appear in drivedb.h?

On Dec 15, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Christian Franke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ivan Lezhnjov Jr. wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Christian Franke <...> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ivan Lezhnjov Jr. wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I can see that, surprisingly, database list is pretty busy and lots of new submissions are constantly being made, which makes me wonder how soon should one expect to see a submission included to the master db file?
>>> This will happen when some team member (including me) has enough spare time to add it.
>>> 
>>> A drivedb entry is not required for most of smartmontools' functionality, with the exception of (SSD) attribute listings.
>>> 
>>> Note that you could add local entries, see man page.
>>> 
>> Oh, that I did already, I'm just being curious here because I see (relatively) a lot of new submissions being made and I was just wondering how fast developers manage to process them. Just to have an idea of what to expect, you know?
> 
> In theory, you cannot expect anything. Everything is done by volunteers in unpaid spare time.
> 
> In practice, I add most of the new submissions before a new smartmontools version is released. We typically provide ~2 releases per year.

I see

> 
> The USB entry for your WD device is now included, try update-smart-drivedb.

lol thank you. Makes me feel privileged :P However, there are some problems with the current version of the file:

% smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.4.2-2-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(534): Syntax error in preset option string
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(560): Syntax error in preset option string
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(645): Syntax error in preset option string
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(2286): Syntax error in preset option string
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(2311): Syntax error in preset option string
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h(2541): Syntax error in preset option string

I grabbed [r3868] from http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/3868/tree/trunk/smartmontools/drivedb.h and copied the file to /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h

Ivan


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