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