diff --git a/tests/smoke/runtest.sh b/tests/smoke/runtest.sh
index 154e490..15f83e5 100755
--- a/tests/smoke/runtest.sh
+++ b/tests/smoke/runtest.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ set -o pipefail
 check_version () {
     # <utility> <option> should return name (or "version" string) and some version like N.N
     rlRun "$1 $2 2>&1 | tee output.log" 0 "check version for $1"
-    rlAssertGrep "(([vV]ersion( string)?:)|($1)).*\d+\.\d+" output.log "-P"
+    rlAssertGrep "(([vV]ersion( string)?:)|($1)|(release:)).*\d+\.\d+" output.log "-P"
 }
 
 # check for help option
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ rlJournalStart
         rlRun "modprobe -r scsi_debug"
         sleep 1
         rlRun "modprobe -v scsi_debug add_host=$SCSI_HOSTS num_tgts=$SCSI_TARGETS"
+        rlRun "modprobe -v sg"
         sleep 1
         choose_host
         if [ "$SCSI_CHOOSEN_HOST" != "" ]; then