I'm using: smartmontools release 5.32 so maybe I AM using a patched kernel. Haven't been able to explicitly find anything about it googling for 30s tho. sorry. hjm On Thursday 16 June 2005 2:57 pm, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > Harry Mangalam wrote: > >on the unpatched kernel, have you tried forcing the smartctl to see the > > disks as ATA devices: > > > >smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sd[etc] > > ^^^^^^ > >Using Ubuntu's 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic (unsure if it has been patched), I > > was surprised that this worked great, including being able to force long > > tests to the disks. > > yeah, i did try using the -d ata option, but it made no difference. But > like I said, I don't know if there's also something to do with > smartmontools. Which version are you using? > > /Patrik -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx <<plain text preferred>> - 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