ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Aug 22 21:00:46 GMT 2005


At 04:54 PM 22/08/2005, damir bikmuhametov wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6.  Couple of things I
> > noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken
> > now.
>
>[...]
>
> > [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# atacontrol cap 0 0
> > usage:  atacontrol <command> args:
> >         atacontrol list
> >         atacontrol info channel
> >         atacontrol attach channel
> >         atacontrol detach channel
> >         atacontrol reinit channel
> >         atacontrol create type [interleave] disk0 ... diskN
> >         atacontrol delete channel
> >         atacontrol addspare array disk
> >         atacontrol rebuild array
> >         atacontrol status array
> >         atacontrol mode device [mode]
> >         atacontrol cap device
> > [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# atacontrol info 0
> > atacontrol: Invalid channel 0
>
>Mike,
>
>You have to use device name for 'cap' and channel name for 'info':
>
># atacontrol cap ad6

Thanks!  ad<n> makes more sense than the previous method. I just 
needed to look at the EXAMPLES section once more to realize ad0 vs 0.

         ---Mike 



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