smartctl requires option -d

  • Hello,

    I'm trying to enable some scheduled tasks to check S.M.A.R.T. status (Short self-test).

    When I run the tast, the smartctl return this error:

    This is a know problem?

    I'm using 7.4.2-2 (Sandworm)

  • Smart Array Gen9 Controllers HP P840.
    it's configured with a logical volume in raid 1 for OS disks (/dev/sda)
    all other disks are single logical volume and I use OMV to manage the RAID via md: maybe this choice is not the best but I can manage disks and array from remote.

    • Official Post

    Please open a feature request at https://github.com/openmediava…iavault/issues/new/choose and provide all necessary information. The further discussion and request of additional information will be done on GitHub.


    Please have a look at https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/issues/959 and check which information has been provided by the user to support the P420i. Especially the UDEV output of these devices are helpful to extract parts of the info that is required to start research and discussion.

    • Official Post

    it's configured with a logical volume in raid 1 for OS disks (/dev/sda)

    This is not supported by OMV because this hides all devices involved in this RAID behind the device file /dev/sda and makes it impossible for OMV to handle and access them in the SMART section.


    all other disks are single logical volume nad I use OMV to manage the RAID via md

    And those devices are available and show all information in the SMART section?


    If so, ignore my previous post with the GitHub issue. In that case the controller is already supported and the problem is simply running a hardware RAID than in pass-through mode. See https://docs.openmediavault.or…/storage/smart.html#smart

  • This is not supported by OMV because this hides all devices involved in this RAID behind the device file /dev/sda and makes it impossible for OMV to handle and access them in the SMART section.

    ok so no one disk can be managed via OMV because I need to specify the -d cciss,1 for all disks.


    too bad.

    tnx a lot for your help, votdev.

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