Recent x86_64 update broke administrator use of smartctl.exe

[Marco Atzeri]

On 3/28/2015 1:52 AM, banshee wrote:
> I have two windows 7 x64 boxes, one running cygwin x86 and the other
> x86_64.  I run smartctl on both boxes.  One can run smartctl as
> administrator or not, but it produces a fuller information set with
> admin rights.  A recent change to the x86_64 cygwin has broken
> administrator use of smartctl as detailed below.  It still runs fine on
> the x86 cygwin.
>
> I'm not certain which version of cygwin broke the functionality, but it
> was working last week.
>
>
> x86_64 running as ADMIN fails to run smartctl
> $ /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -a /dev/sda
> smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-unknown-cygwin-win7-sp1]
> (cygwin-6.3-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> Read Device Identity failed: Input/output error
>
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
> '-T permissive' options.
> $ head /dev/sda
> (works)
> $
>

works fine for me.


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