Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:27, Tom <tomgparchaur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Are you running smartd?
> > Yes, but I have smartd configured to ignore the hard disk if it's in
> > standby. In syslog I have:
> > smartd[7004]: Device: /dev/sda, is in STANDBY mode, suspending checks
> >
> > And thanks for answering so fast (and wasting your time too).
>
> But I guess it open the device node writable, so it might trigger a
> change event.
FWIW, on my system with smartmontools 5.38,
smartctl -a /dev/sda => open("/dev/sda", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda => open("/dev/sda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)
It behaves the same in both cases. Tom, you might try adding "-d ata"
to /etc/smartd.conf to see if it works around your problem.
-jim
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