On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Brad Campbell wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > And do check your disks regularly, although I don't think current version > > of smartmontools fully supports sata under the scsi subsystem yet... > > > > Actually, if you are using a UP machine, the libata-dev tree has patches > that make this work. I believe there may be races on SMP machines > however. > > All 29 drives get a short test every morning and a long test every > Sunday morning. Odd results are immediately E-mailed to me by smartd. > > storage1:/home/brad# smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda Ahhh... I've been waiting for the magical "-d libata" to make it work.. I never through to just try the -d ata! And hurrah: Old: skylla:/home/gordonh# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 Version: YAR5 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. New: smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Serial Number: Y2ASRT5E Firmware Version: YAR51HW0 User Capacity: 80,000,000,000 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Wed Mar 9 11:09:12 2005 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Cheers, Gordon Ps. This is a Dell 1U poweredge FWIW - Maxtor disks )-: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
