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I believe this is the best project around which to discuss S.M.A.R.T. related issues.

I have several questions I want to discuss in your forum. For example

How does the firmware, drivers and operating system avoid writing to pending sectors? How does software force writing to pending sectors?

Why is there a mismatch between the S.M.A.R.T. pending sector count and the sector error count from ddrescue?

Thanks!

Hi,

As I have seen some broken USB-Harddisks now, I would like to submit a WISH:

smartd, when started with options for devicescan and being told, they could be removable, and seeing that smart-notifier connects to smartd via dbus: couldn't smartd check usb-disks when they're connected after starting smartd? (using udisks dbus interface or somesuch) And if it does so already, please document it (then I woulnd't have asked).

Thank you VERY much for great work, which repeatedly saved me from data-loss.

mo

I tried to use smartmontools natively built from tar on a QNAP TS-419PII. All versions from 5.42 down to 5.39 produce a segfault:

[~] # smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sda smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Segmentation fault

Version 5.38 finally worked:

[~] # smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

START OF INFORMATION SECTION

Device Model: WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 ...

I am ok with just using 5.38, but if someone wants to fix it I am willing to support by testing patches and sending logs. Only problem would be I cannot build from svn (because of a perl issue?):

[~/share/smartmontools] $ ./autogen.sh This Perl not built to support threads Compilation failed in require at /opt/bin/automake-1.11 line 139. ...

[~/share/smartmontools] $ perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for arm-none-linux-gnueabi ...