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Subject: Re: Potential BLODA reported for smartctl due to WMI calls
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On Jul 11 07:45, Christian Franke wrote:
> If smartctl is run for an USB drive, a potential BLODA is reported:
> 
> # uname -sr
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.15(0.260/5/3)
> 
> # echo $CYGWIN
> detect_bloda
> 
> # /usr/sbin/smartctl -i /dev/sdb
> smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-pc-cygwin-win7(64)-sp1]
> (cygwin-5.42-1)
> ...
> 
> Potential BLODA detected!  Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL:
>   C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wbemprox.dll
> 
> Potential BLODA detected!  Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL:
>   C:\Windows\syswow64\OLE32.dll
> 
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda ES.2
> Device Model:     ST31000340NS
> ...
> 
> 
> smartctl uses WMI queries to retrieve USB Id for physical drive.
> This is used to auto-detect ATA pass-through protocol provided by
> USB bridge.
> Could these two DLLs possibly be added to the list of well known DLLs?

Done.


Corinna

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