ada/ahci and smartmontools
    Alexander Motin 
    mav at FreeBSD.org
       
    Wed Oct 21 14:50:46 UTC 2009
    
    
  
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> sorry then I will try again, I just installed the port and tried a
> simple command
> 
> Ziggy# smartctl -i /dev/ad4s1
> smartctl version 5.38 [i386-portbld-freebsd9.0] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
> 
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
> more '-T permissive' options.
Remove s1 from device name. Partitions doesn't support SMART usually. :)
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