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I need some help or explanation, i need to run smartctl like other user diferent from root, my user p.e user1 can be in any group,in fact is in group disk, this requirement is for a monitoring staff.

/usr/sbin/smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

I checked the ATA/ATAPI specification and it seems it may be possible to find real HW sector size from word 106 of IDENTIFY DEVICE command. Would it be possible to check this and propagate this information to user-space via smartctl? It will allow semi-automatic creation of properly aligned partitions on devices like WD6400AARS.

• please support 3ware devices at devicescan.
• or accept the devicescan if some device was already specified in the configuration file.
• scan all /dev/sd* devices not just sd[a-z]

thank you.