[smartmontools-support] --scan-open limited to /dev/sdcz

[Eric Altendorf]

PS: the reason I care specifically about --scan-open is that it is what the
prometheus smartmon exporter uses to report smart stats, so only some of my
drives show up in my system monitoring.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:29 PM Eric Altendorf <ericaltendorf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have valid drives that smartctl can access and report on beyond
> /dev/sdcz, but they do not show up with `smartctl --scan-open`.
>
> This scan pattern looks possibly outdated:
>
>     get_dev_list(devlist, "/dev/sd[a-c][a-z]", true, p_dev_sdxy_seen,
> false, type_scsi_sat, autodetect);
>
>
> https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/blob/89e11937812e6469e086ea2465a17ce62a0622a1/smartmontools/os_linux.cpp#L3066
>
> I am not sure just how far Linux goes now (/dev/sdzzzz ?) but I know it
> goes beyond /dev/sdcz. :)
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
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