Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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. 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