Greetings, Matty. > > Well, unless that's different than noted behavior before there were problems, > > that doesn't really indicate a bad drive any more than a drive/driver that > > doesn't support smartd. Smartd doesn't work on most sata drives with the > > sata driver included in the stock CentOS kernel. > smart does work, the default config from from redhat is wrong see bug > #176835 and #187181. The output from smartctl used to be wrong. The > correct command was sent by Alfred > > Use '-d ata'. -d is for device type, not debug. Hmm, and how about this: > [root at cappa etc]# smartctl -a /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Device: ATA ST3160812AS Version: 3.AA > > 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. Server has got CentOS4.4 installed, with two SATA discs, attached to an Intel SATA onboard controller. CentOS4.4 uses libata as a kernel module for it. The output from smartctl says all for itself. -- Best regards, Alexey Loukianov mailto:aloukianov at lavtech.ru System Engineer, IT Department, Lavtech Corp