Peter Kjellstr?m wrote:
>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
>
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And there is a 'kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80.i386.rpm' listed in the new
packages for update 3.
Whats the best way to get the changelog if I dont have an 'EL' box, is
it in the free src.rpm ?
Bards.
