Is it now (>2.6.16) safe to issue SMART commands to SATA drives? I read an old email about it that it wasn't queued and could cause corruption. However, I couldn't find a notice that that issue had been resolved. Has it? Thanks, Wesley - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html