On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:49 +0000, Andy Burns wrote: > My motherboard is configured so the SATA drives show up as ahci devices > rather than legacy ide devices, fedora itself recognises the disks OK, > however smartd fails to start. > > I did some investigation with smartctl and found that it was necessary > to use > > smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda > > with the "-d ata" being required to make it use libata, so I modified > the entries in /etc/smartd.conf to also have the "-d ata" > > /dev/sda -d ata -H -m root@localhost > /dev/sdb -d ata -H -m root@localhost > > now smartd is happy. > > I'm not sure if anaconda (or something else) should have have recognised > the ahci devices at install time and made appropriate entries in > /etc/smartd.conf, in which case I should file a bug, or if this is > something the user should expect to have to configure, in which case > hopefully this message might help someone else out ... Smartd is configured through the smartd-conf.py script automatically when /etc/smartd.conf doesn't exist. The latest rawhide smarttools package should configure the SATA drives with '-d ata' fine. However if the smartd.conf exists when smartd is started it won't be overwritten and in such case it must be manually reconfigured by user. -- Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list