[smartmontools-support] 99 disk limit

[Christian Franke]

Peter Clausen wrote:
>
> I have a server with 101 disk drives in it and have written a utility 
> to poll various smart stats from the drives.
>
> Problem is that smartctl only seems to support up to 99 drives.
>

Device scan limitations exist and depend on smartmontools version, 
platform, ...
Please be more specific (e.g. provide first line of smartctl output).


> Issuing this command, for example, only returns the first 99 drives:
>
> smartctl -A --scan
>

BTW: -A and most other options have no effect if --scan is used.

Thanks,
Christian