From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 08:36:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F2616A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB59D43D2D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:36:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from free.bsd@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2005 08:36:52 -0000 Received: from pD9E7FAB8.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.2.101]) [217.231.250.184] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 19 Apr 2005 10:36:52 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20105305 Message-ID: <4264C2B3.2090400@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:34:59 +0800 From: FreeBSD Daemon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: smartmontools question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:36:59 -0000 dear list, i just installed smartmonutils from ports on a 4.11-release box. when i run # /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a ad0 I get the error message smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen [snip] Smartctl open device: ad0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device the same with the second disk in the system (ad2). the same if i user /dev/ad[02]+. what might be the problem? TIA