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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc regression: smartctl does not work with SATA disk
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:33:25 -0400
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Kai Makisara wrote:
> The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The 
> disk /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI 
> disk.

Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl
for it to work with libata drives.  Has this changed?