Howdy all:
I recently upgraded one of my dev machines (A Dell Power 420SC with a single Seagate 80GB SATA drive) to 4.x, hoping that the latest release would have support for my sata drives. I read up on it, and they're not technically support yet (on this page http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp, under FireWire, USB, and SATA disks/systems).
The question I have is whether anyone has any insight into whether libata support (and therefore smartd) for Sata Drives is fourthcoming. Other than writing the developer personally (generally annoying to the developer), I'm not sure whom to ask.
Does anyone have any insite into this issue? I've got about 20 of these machines in production, and many, many more coming, and I'd like to be able to use smartd to monitor their disks, but short of applying kernel patches (generally not a good idea when some clients also have root), I'm kind of twizzled on the issue.
Thanks in advance, as always.
-- Jonathan