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

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

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
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University