I have SATA drives and have found that the newest smartmontools package will retrieve smart data from SATA drives with the '-d ata' switch.
Is there a devel/testing package of kernel-utils available or should I just roll my own?
Rik
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 12:05pm, rik@harddata.com wrote
I have SATA drives and have found that the newest smartmontools package will retrieve smart data from SATA drives with the '-d ata' switch.
Is there a devel/testing package of kernel-utils available or should I just roll my own?
WORKSFORME on both centos3 and centos4 with stock tools and kernels.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 12:05pm, rik@harddata.com wrote
I have SATA drives and have found that the newest smartmontools package will retrieve smart data from SATA drives with the '-d ata' switch.
Is there a devel/testing package of kernel-utils available or should I just roll my own?
WORKSFORME on both centos3 and centos4 with stock tools and kernels.
Hmmmm must have had some syntax error that I couldn't detect. The smartmontools 5.33 in the base kernel-utils rpm now works with my SATA drives with no errors.
Rik
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 12:05pm, rik@harddata.com wrote
I have SATA drives and have found that the newest smartmontools package will retrieve smart data from SATA drives with the '-d ata' switch.
Is there a devel/testing package of kernel-utils available or should I just roll my own?
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.
-- rex
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.
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
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