Peter Kjellström wrote: >On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:12, Bards1888 wrote: > > >>I noticed that the changelog for the new kernel 2.6.9-34 on the redhat >>enterprise watchlist states on of the fixes as; >> >>145061 - SMART support in SATA driver (P1) >> >> >> >> >>Does this mean that with that kernel we should be able to interrogate SATA >>drives now ? >> >> > >It seems we will need a new smartmontools (I don't know if that's included in >4.3) even if 2.6.9-34 now supports it: > >[root at dx ~]# uname -r >2.6.9-34.ELsmp >[root at dx ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sda >smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce >Allen >Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > >Device: ATA HDS728080PLA380 Version: PF2O > >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. > >/Peter > > > >>Cheers, >> >>Bards. >> >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Same here. I notice that 'smartd' itself is packaged with kernel-utils and not smartmontools as I'd have expected. Does that suggest that we won't be able to use smart for sata until kernel-utils is also updated ? Cheers.