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Václav Haisman wrote:

>I get the following error with smartctl:
>
>Internal error: unable to compile regular expression
>^(Hitachi)?HDS724040KL(AT|SA)80)$parentheses not balanced
>Please inform smartmontools developers at
>smartmontools-support AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net
>  
>

There is in fact an invalid regular expression in the drive database module.
The bug in invisible on most other platforms supported by smartmontools,
because of a subtle difference in regex syntax of Cygwin and GNU regex(3).

See recent topic "unsupported disk drive?" on smartmontools support list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=12495


>Despite the error the tool seems to work fine.
>  
>

Thanks.
The error message can be safely ignored.

I will release a fixed package soon.

Thanks for the problem report.

Christian


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