> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 12:05pm, rik at 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