Re: IDENTIFY DEVICE not working any more?

["Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>]

Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:07 +0200, Dieter Stüken wrote:
> 
>>I used smartmontools for sata devices quite successfully awhile.
>>Since 2.6.12.2 however, I get an ioerror on "DENTIFY DEVICE"
>>errno=25 [Inappropriate ioctl for device] and smartctl gives up.
> 
> Over here it works fine (sata_promise driver + 2.6.12.3 +
> smartmontools).
> 
> Also afaik the .1/.2/.3 patches did not contain changes to the libata or
> scsi layer.

strange. I Have written a tiny test with: rc = ioctl(fd, HDIO_GET_IDENTITY, &id);
and definitely got: "/dev/sda: Inappropriate ioctl for device" with 2.6.12.2.
I did not test any other 2.6.12.x, but it works fine for an other 2.6.11 system.

Unfortunalely I can't install an other kernel today, as all my systems are in
production. Is there any new kernel config I missed? The only difference ist,
that my 2.6.12 system is a x86_64, where as the 2.6.11 system is an i686.
I'll try some constellations later at home, where I have an other x86_64 system.

Dieter.
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