smartctl.exe -d aacraid on Windows crashing when called with full path to binary

[Dmitriy]

Good day!

I'd found that *smartctl.exe* works perfectly when called from the current directory. For example:

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin> cd
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin> smartctl.exe -l selftest -a /dev/sda -d aacraid,0,0,0
...

In this case it prints SMART Self-set log. All good.

But!

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin> cd
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>.\smartctl.exe -l selftest -a /dev/sda -d aacraid,0,0,0

or

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>"C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin\smartctl.exe" -l selftest -a /dev/sda -d aacraid,0,0,0

made me crazy %) by whipping out window telling "Control and Monitoring utility for SMART Disks has stopped to working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program".

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>"C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin\smartctl.exe" -V
smartctl 7.3 2021-08-27 r5230 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-2008r2-sp1] (CircleCI)
Copyright (C) 2002-21, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

smartctl comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License; either
version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
See https://www.gnu.org for further details.

smartmontools release 7.3 dated 2020-12-30 at 16:48:30 UTC
smartmontools SVN rev 5230 dated 2021-08-27 at 16:09:18
smartmontools build host: x86_64-w64-mingw32
smartmontools build with: C++11, GCC 7.3-win32 20180312
smartmontools configure arguments: 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-w64-mingw32'

[Dmitriy]

If it maybe helpful...

Controller information
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   Controller Status                        : Optimal
   Channel description                      : SAS/SATA
   Controller Model                         : Adaptec 6805
...
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   Controller Version Information
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   BIOS                                     : 5.2-0 (19109)
   Firmware                                 : 5.2-0 (19109)
   Driver                                   : 7.5-0 (52013)
   Boot Flash                               : 5.2-0 (19109)

[Christian Franke]

smartctl 7.3 2021-08-27 r5230 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-2008r2-sp1] (CircleCI)

This is a 7.3-prerelease CI build. The -d aacraid,... option was disabled one commit later (r5231) because the code is unmaintained and reportedly broken. See ticket #1515 for details.

Please retry with ​7.3 final and -d aacraid,0,0,0,force option.

The possible connection of the crash to the specified path to the executable is interesting and may help some volunteer developer with access to this controller to find the root of the problem.