Re: wedges, disk access, smartd/smartctl

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Sep 22,  1:51pm, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
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} when trying to access a `wedged' disk with smartctl or smartd, both
} tools fail with:
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}       # smartctl -a /dev/wd0d
}       Smartctl open device: /dev/wd0d failed: Device busy
} 
} Is there a workaround for this?

     Try smartctl -a /dev/rwd0d (i.e. use the raw device).

}-- End of excerpt from Petar Bogdanovic