The current "testing" version for smartmontools is 5.39, which has some bugs which were fixed by the 5.39.1 version. Therefore I recommend adding 5.39.1 to portage and removing 5.39 from the tree. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki Summary: smartmontools release 5.39.1 10 ----------------------------------------------------------- 11 - Fix crash on kFreeBSD. 12 - Fix regression in smartctl option '-q, --quietmode'. 13 - Fix regression in smartd directive '-l selftest'. 14 - Linux: Allow smartd 'DEVICESCAN -d sat'. 15 - Linux: Fix spin-up of SATA drive if '-n standby' is used. 16 - Windows: Fix parsing of 3ware 'tw_cli' output.
now in the tree ... thanks for the heads up
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