Re: Smart and SATA with FC4

[Harry Mangalam <hjm@tacgi.com>]

I'm using:
smartmontools release 5.32

so maybe I AM using a patched kernel.  Haven't been able to explicitly find 
anything about it googling for 30s tho.

sorry.

hjm



On Thursday 16 June 2005 2:57 pm, Patrik Jonsson wrote:
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> >on the unpatched kernel, have you tried forcing the smartctl to see the
> > disks as ATA devices:
> >
> >smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sd[etc]
> >            ^^^^^^
> >Using Ubuntu's 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic (unsure if it has been patched), I
> > was surprised that this worked great, including being able to force long
> > tests to the disks.
>
> yeah, i did try using the -d ata option, but it made no difference. But
> like I said, I don't know if there's also something to do with
> smartmontools. Which version are you using?
>
> /Patrik

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