smartmontools + freebsd-9 kernel "gives error sending CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

[Samuel Moritz <samuel.moritz@gmail.com>]

Hi!

 

I have tried to find an existing bug report for this problem, but I did not find one. I have never submitted a Debian bug report before, so I wanted to double-check with you guys if this is a known issue.

 

I recently upgraded my Debian kFreeBSD installation from an 8.x kernel to the 9.0.1 kernel. After this was done, I could not use smartctl to check the SMART data of my hard drives any more.

 

Example:

root@debian:/# smartctl -a /dev/ad0
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [GNU/kFreeBSD 9.0-1-amd64 x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

error sending CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Unable to get CAM device list
/dev/ad0: Unable to detect device type
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

 

Packages:

kfreebsd-image-9.0.1-amd64 9.0.1

smartmontools 5.41+svn3365-1

 

I found someone else experiencing the same problem on (non-Debian) FreeBSD: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/136418

Quote: "CAM ABI was changed right before RC1. The issue was mentioned in the Ken' announcement. The packages were obviously built with the old headers."