Peter Gross wrote: > Rasmus Back wrote: > > Rasmus, > I don't know what motherboard and kernel you are using, but I found > that using the stock Centos 4.4 kernel-utils package (which includes > smartctl), smartctl did not work with my Sata II drive. So I downloaded, > built, and installed smartmontools-5.37, which did. I am also running > kernel 2.20.1 -- not sure if that is a factor. Plus my sata driver > module is sata_nv (Nvidia). > > --peter gross > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos You can also use the '-d ata' switch to smartctl to get it to work with SATA devices. To wit: > [root at jaybird ~]# smartctl -H /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Request Sense failed, [Input/output error] Now the same command with the '-d ata' switch: > [root at jaybird ~]# smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED I picked this up from a thread a while back on this list. Hope that helps! -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey at mindless.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4011 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070329/fce2cd7c/attachment-0004.bin>