Peter Kjellstr?m wrote:
>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:12, Bards1888 wrote:
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>>I noticed that the changelog for the new kernel 2.6.9-34 on the redhat
>>enterprise watchlist states on of the fixes as;
>>
>>145061 - SMART support in SATA driver (P1)
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>>Does this mean that with that kernel we should be able to interrogate SATA
>>drives now ?
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>
>It seems we will need a new smartmontools (I don't know if that's included in
>4.3) even if 2.6.9-34 now supports it:
>
>[root@dx ~]# uname -r
>2.6.9-34.ELsmp
>[root@dx ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sda
>smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce
>Allen
>Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
>Device: ATA HDS728080PLA380 Version: PF2O
>
>SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by
>smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an
>additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools.
>
>/Peter
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>
>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Bards.
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Same here.
I notice that 'smartd' itself is packaged with kernel-utils and not
smartmontools as I'd have expected. Does that suggest that we won't be
able to use smart for sata until kernel-utils is also updated ?
Cheers.
