On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:12, Bards1888 wrote:
I noticed that the changelog for the new kernel 2.6.9-34 on the redhat enterprise watchlist states on of the fixes as;
145061 - SMART support in SATA driver (P1)
Does this mean that with that kernel we should be able to interrogate SATA drives now ?
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:
[root@dx ~]# uname -r 2.6.9-34.ELsmp [root@dx ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Device: ATA HDS728080PLA380 Version: PF2O
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.
/Peter
Cheers,
Bards.