I know this is not an IPFire issue. Does anyone have any experience with submitting new devices to be included in the smartctl database? I have a new Protectli firewall and smartctl does not detect the drive type:
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.47-ipfire] (IPFire 2.29)
Copyright (C) 2002-23 Bruce Allen Christian Franke www.smartmontools.org/dev/mmcblk0: Unable to detect device type
This is the hardware:
And the storage is:
On-board 32GB eMMC
smartmontools or you can edit the file locally yourself.
After further research, it looks like eMMC devices are a bit different. They are considered flash memory (embedded multimedia card) and I don’t think smartctl can read them even if database is updated. No SMART stats, etc.
It looks like eMMC also doesn’t have any diagnostic info to provide anyway.
Found this issue in the smartmontools github site where a user had a problem of smartmontools not detecting eMMC and that basically says they can’t be scanned and read which matches up with what you found