On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:46, Bards1888 wrote: > 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: > > ... > > > >/Peter > > > >>Cheers, > >> > >>Bards. > > > ... > 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 ? That would probably be the correct conclusion, but if redhat does intend to support smart for libata then a new kernel-utils package will be part of 4.3. /Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellström | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060314/f0cb41a7/attachment-0005.sig>