Greetings, Matty.
> > Well, unless that's different than noted behavior before there were problems,
> > that doesn't really indicate a bad drive any more than a drive/driver that
> > doesn't support smartd. Smartd doesn't work on most sata drives with the
> > sata driver included in the stock CentOS kernel.
> smart does work, the default config from from redhat is wrong see bug
> #176835 and #187181. The output from smartctl used to be wrong. The
> correct command was sent by Alfred
>
> Use '-d ata'. -d is for device type, not debug.
Hmm, and how about this:
> [root@cappa etc]# smartctl -a /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Device: ATA ST3160812AS Version: 3.AA
>
> 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.
Server has got CentOS4.4 installed, with two SATA discs, attached to an
Intel SATA onboard controller. CentOS4.4 uses libata as a kernel module for
it. The output from smartctl says all for itself.
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Best regards,
Alexey Loukianov mailto:aloukianov@xxxxxxxxxx
System Engineer,
IT Department,
Lavtech Corp
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