[smartmontools-support] Disk names with smartmontools on Windows

[Christian Franke]

Hi,

support at napp-it.org wrote:
> We use smartmontools per default on Free-BSD, Linux, OSX and Solaris 
> storagesystems with our multi os napp-it storage web-gui. Due the 
> upcoming OpenZFS on Windows, we tried smartmontools there too
>
> It works as expected beside disknames where it uses "Linux alike 
> /dev/sd" disknames that you can use after a --scan instead the Windows 
> physicaldriveX. Only way to assign smartmontools results to Windows 
> disks seems to compare serial numbers. As in some cases Windows does 
> not deliver correct serial numbers, this is not always possible what 
> makes smartmontools on Windows sometimes useless.
>
> Please offer a way to use Windows disknames instead Linux disknames or 
> at least display Windows disknames additionally in output of scan or 
> diskchecks to make smartmontools a valuable default tool on Windows too.

Please describe your use case and requirements in more details. Feel 
free to create an issue at GH which is our new upstream:
https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools

Note that you could alternatively use Windows physical drive numbers, 
please try:
smartctl -d pd --scan

You may also want to try the Cygwin version of smartmontools as the 
Cygwin DLL partly emulates the /dev/disk/by-* feature of Linux. It does 
not require a full Cygwin installation. "smartctl.exe" could be run if 
the following DLLs are also present in the same directory:
cygwin1.dll, cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll, cygstdc++-6.dll
Add "busybox.exe" from Cygwin package "busybox-standalone" for a 
reasonable shell environment.


> Thanks for the great product
>

You're welcome.

-- 
Regards,
Christian