Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600):

> On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote:

>> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500):

>>> Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped:
>>> root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' 
>>> "$(realpath "$j")" "$j" ; done
>>> /dev/sr0        /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ATAPI_iHAS424_B_3524253_327133504865
>>> /dev/sdi        /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146
>>> /dev/sdj1       /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146-part1

> It's right here at the top.

I missed that, probably because i & j look similar in the big sea of
alphanumerics, /and/ sdi has no partitions, while sdj1 has no parent disk. That
seems to smell as much like a bug somewhere as two different disks with the same
serial number, a cheap SATA port card maybe. Does ...1146 get duplication like
that when connected to any/every available SATA port?
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