On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Matt <lm7812@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Also the fact that the drive is showing up as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda
>> means that you are not using the best driver for the hard drive. Go into the
>> bios and try either native mode to serial ATA or SATA AHCI enable.
>> You might need to rebuild the initrd from a rescue disk after you boot.
>
>>>native mode to serial ATA
>
> Did that. Now it shows up as sda again. I no longer get the errors
> either but I get this now.
>
> [root@server log]# hdparm -i /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> Smartd also complains on boot up.
>
Smartd is not that smart - it has known issues with SATA drives, as I
have posted on in this group recently.
I ran smartctl and Seatool (from Seagate, since mine is a Seagate
drive) tests on it and had no problems. Of course, my WD and Hitachi
SATA drives don't do this, so maybe it is peculiar to Seagates....
mhr
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