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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:51:12 -0400
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Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> 
> I am pretty sure my drive supports SMART. I hope that I understood your
> post correctly that with this patch it should work.

Prakash,

You need "-d ata" on the smartctl command line (and in smartd.conf, if
using smartd) in order for this to work:

	smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda

John