[smartmontools-support] Lttle help needed

[Christian Franke]

Daniel Stoenciu wrote:
> I have a server Dell PowerEdge R610 with CentOS release 6.9.
> I am trying to read the SMART infos 'cause I get an error E1810 – hard 
> drive 1 fault review and clear SEL.
> ...
> and when I want to do any command I get this:
>
> [root]# sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda3
> smartctl 5.43 2016-09-28 r4347 
> [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-696.13.2.el6.x86_64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> Smartctl open device: /dev/sda3 failed: INQUIRY failed

This fails because /dev/sda3 denotes the logical partition 3. Use 
/dev/sda to access the physical drive.

Thanks,
Christian