[CentOS] SMART for SATA devices ?

Bards1888 bards1888 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 12:15:20 UTC 2006


Peter Kjellström wrote:

>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:46, Bards1888 wrote:
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>>Peter Kjellström wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:12, Bards1888 wrote:
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>>>>I noticed that the changelog for the new kernel 2.6.9-34 on the redhat
>>>>enterprise watchlist states on of the fixes as;
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>>>>145061 - SMART support in SATA driver (P1)
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>>>>
>>>>Does this mean that with that kernel we should be able to interrogate
>>>>SATA drives now ?
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>>>It seems we will need a new smartmontools (I don't know if that's included
>>>in 4.3) even if 2.6.9-34 now supports it:
>>>...
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>>>/Peter
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>>>>Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>Bards.
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>>>>
>>...
>>Same here.
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>>I notice that 'smartd' itself is packaged with kernel-utils and not
>>smartmontools as I'd have expected.  Does that suggest that we won't be
>>able to use smart for sata until kernel-utils is also updated ?
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>That would probably be the correct conclusion, but if redhat does intend to 
>support smart for libata then a new kernel-utils package will be part of 4.3.
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>/Peter
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And there is a 'kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80.i386.rpm' listed in the new
packages for update 3.

Whats the best way to get the changelog if I dont have an 'EL' box, is
it in the free src.rpm ?


Bards.





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