Re: IDENTIFY DEVICE not working any more?

[Tyler <pml@dtbb.net>]

Were the 2.6.11 kernels you have included with a distribution such as 
ubuntu, fedora, etc?  If it was, there's a good chance that it has the 
passthru libata patch, that allows you to access drives using smartctl, 
with the special ata flag.

Tyler.

Dieter Stüken wrote:

> Erik Slagter wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:07 +0200, Dieter Stüken wrote:
>>
>>> I used smartmontools for sata devices quite successfully awhile.
>>> Since 2.6.12.2 however, I get an ioerror on "DENTIFY DEVICE"
>>> errno=25 [Inappropriate ioctl for device] and smartctl gives up.
>>
>>
>> Over here it works fine (sata_promise driver + 2.6.12.3 +
>> smartmontools).
>>
>> Also afaik the .1/.2/.3 patches did not contain changes to the libata or
>> scsi layer.
>
>
> strange. I Have written a tiny test with: rc = ioctl(fd, 
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY, &id);
> and definitely got: "/dev/sda: Inappropriate ioctl for device" with 
> 2.6.12.2.
> I did not test any other 2.6.12.x, but it works fine for an other 
> 2.6.11 system.
>
> Unfortunalely I can't install an other kernel today, as all my systems 
> are in
> production. Is there any new kernel config I missed? The only 
> difference ist,
> that my 2.6.12 system is a x86_64, where as the 2.6.11 system is an i686.
> I'll try some constellations later at home, where I have an other 
> x86_64 system.
>
> Dieter.



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