Re: [CentOS] Re: Any plans to update kernel-utils for newer smartmontools

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 2:19pm, Rex Dieter wrote

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

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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.