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