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

[Rex Dieter]

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