On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:46, Bards1888 wrote:
> Peter Kjellstr?m wrote:
> >On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:12, Bards1888 wrote:
> >>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)
> >>
> >>
> >>Does this mean that with that kernel we should be able to interrogate
> >> SATA drives now ?
> >
> >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:
> > ...
> >
> >/Peter
> >
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Bards.
> >
> ...
> 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 ?
That would probably be the correct conclusion, but if redhat does intend to
support smart for libata then a new kernel-utils package will be part of 4.3.
/Peter
--
------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Kjellstr?m |
National Supercomputer Centre |
Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060314/f0cb41a7/attachment.bin
