Re: Smart and the -i flag?

Joan wrote:
> Good morning, I'm trying to ignore an attribute that is triggering 
> errors in a sata disc (precisely a Transcend TS8GHSD310 that issues an 
> error for attribute 167)
>
> On the smartd.conf manual I can read
>        -i ID  [ATA only] Ignore device  Attribute  number  ID  when 
>  checking  for  failure  of  Usage
>               Attributes. ...
>
> But according to the init script -i seems to be used for interval checking
>     #/etc/init.d/smartd
>     if test -n "$SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL" -a "$SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL" != 
> 1800 ; then
>        smartd_opts=" -i $SMARTD_CHECK_INTERVAL"
>     fi
>

Please note the difference between smartd command line options (man 
smartd) and smartd.conf directives (man smartd.conf).


> I am using smartd 5.41+svn3365-1 from debian squeeze, but the same 
> manual is active for 6.2+svn3841-1.2 (on debian testing)
> So my question is, what is the proper way to avoid triggering error 
> for a faulty attribute?
>

Add "-i ID" to smartd.conf configuration line of this specific device.

Thanks,
Christian


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