From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 112193 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2015 06:14:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 112177 invoked by uid 89); 28 Mar 2015 06:14:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f172.google.com) (209.85.212.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 06:14:25 +0000 Received: by wibgn9 with SMTP id gn9so57634593wib.1 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:14:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.176.162 with SMTP id cj2mr43094368wjc.93.1427523262729; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (pD9E60EFB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.230.14.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 17sm5791834wjt.45.2015.03.27.23.14.21 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <551646B9.1020908@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:41:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Recent x86_64 update broke administrator use of smartctl.exe References: <5515FB35.9020709@abattoir.com> In-Reply-To: <5515FB35.9020709@abattoir.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00503.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple