Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 09:40:19 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I missed it too.  It actually looks like someone copy/pasted the
> pathnames on the right, but then manually typed the device names on
> the left, and made a typo here.  Or, somehow, the device names and
> the pathnames got mixed together, and someone tried to separate them
> manually, and got these two crossed.

It's the sticky labels that convinced me. I had one last possibility
in mind, that the serial numbers were being generated by the
interfaces somehow, but they wouldn't be able to read the labels.

I know nothing about Gene's interfaces, but my SD cards can appear
with false by-id/ values depending on where they're plugged in:
slots (on different PCs), via µSD-SD adapter, SD-USB adapter, etc.

Cheers,
David.