Disk Type is unknown (for old rotational hdd)

guerby

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Hi,

We have one old hdd where the column "Type" in the "Disks" node view shows as "unknown" (instead of "SSD" or "Hard Disk")

Our proxmox version is 7.4 up to date kernel 5.15.108-1-pve on this server.

Here is smartctl of the disk :

Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF)
Device Model:     WDC WD20EARS-00J2GB0
Serial Number:    WD-xxx
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2af01240b
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Fri Aug 11 08:29:12 2023 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Some linux info:

Code:
# cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational
1
# lsblk -d -o name,rota|grep sdb
sdb     1

I don't know what PVE uses for finding out the disk type, any idea? (I didn't check the PVE source code)

Thanks!
 

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