Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#695 new enhancement

Incorrect serial number in email report after drive replacement

Reported by: alan_nv Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: unscheduled
Component: smartd Version: 6.3
Keywords: Cc: Nathan Stratton Treadway

Description

Using the 6.3+svn4002-2+b2 version included in Debian Jessie.

After replacing a hard drive, smartd detected a smart error on the new drive, and sent an email with details. The serial number of the drive in the email was incorrect - it was the serial number of the previous drive in that slot.

Restarting the smartmontools service resulted in an email report with the correct serial number - presumably the old one was cached somewhere rather than queried.

The disks in question are in a Dell MD1000 enclosure attached to a Dell H800 raid controller - rebadged LSI SAS 2108. I haven't specified any +dsat,megaraid devices in /etc/smartd.conf, the devices seem to be noticed correctly by DEVICESCAN now, although perhaps that has some impact on the error I've encountered.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Christian Franke, 8 years ago

Component: allsmartd
Milestone: unscheduled
Type: defectenhancement

This is as expected. Smartd does not rescan device list on hotplug or re-issue IDENTIFY/INQUIRY commands before each device check. After disk replacement, it is required to manually restart smartd or request a rescan (SIGHUP).

Related: tickets #60 and #218.

BTW: Yes, devices behind LSI SAS controllers are included in DEVICESCAN since r3734.

comment:2 by Nathan Stratton Treadway, 5 years ago

Cc: Nathan Stratton Treadway added
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