Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 2:19pm, Rex Dieter wrote
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
WORKSFORME on both centos3 and centos4 with stock tools and kernels.
Not me. On our boxes with SATA drives, smartd fails to start, and this is sent to /var/log/messages:
Jun 13 14:17:37 foo smartd[10289]: Device /dev/sda, 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.
What happens if you try:
smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda
? If it doesn't work, provide more details -- centos version, kernel version, etc.
OK, it works only if I modify /etc/smartd.conf to use the -d ata option. Thanks. I was just thrown by your comment that things work with "stock tools and kernels", assuming it meant "works out of the box without tweaking".
-- Rex