Smartmontools

[Scott Long]

On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:

> Other than nooptions ATA_CAM, is there a fix or circumvention to allow 
> smartmontools to work correctly under 9.0 and -CURRENT?
> 
> slippy# smartctl -a /dev/ad0
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE i386] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> 
> error sending CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Unable to get CAM device list
> /dev/ad0: Unable to detect device type
> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
> 
> Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
> 
> slippy# 
> 
> 

I can't say for certain, but my guess is that you've been victimized by recent changes to CAM headers.  Have you tried recompiling to get everything in sync?

Scott