Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 07.06.2011 09:35, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> On 06/07/2011 09:04 AM, Dave Seddon wrote:
>> Here's an example of the nasty/QEMU output of smartmontools:
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> # smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg0
>> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-spcdn-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>> Device Model:     [No Information Found]
>> Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
>> Firmware Version: �"
>> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
>> ATA Version is:   1
>> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
>> Local Time is:    Tue Jun  7 16:57:08 2011 UTC
>> SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
>> We will try to proceed in spite of this.
>> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if 
>> SMART supported.
>>                    Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE command.
>>                    SMART ENABLE appeared to work!  Continuing.
>> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if 
>> SMART is enabled.
>> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T 
>> permissive' options
>> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation.

But this is scsi-disk - what does smartctl even try here?

Kevin