From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dieter_St=FCken?= Subject: Re: IDENTIFY DEVICE not working any more? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:54:13 +0200 Message-ID: <43009E85.40606@conterra.de> References: <43005B4D.1090801@conterra.de> <1124102095.8189.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43009642.40805@conterra.de> <4300998D.6000205@dtbb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from vvv.conterra.de ([212.124.44.162]:43729 "EHLO conterra.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964772AbVHONyR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:54:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by conterra.de (-) with ESMTP id 4CCB71C88E2 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:54:16 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4300998D.6000205@dtbb.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tyler wrote: > Were the 2.6.11 kernels you have included with a distribution such as= =20 > ubuntu, fedora, etc? If it was, there's a good chance that it has th= e=20 > passthru libata patch, that allows you to access drives using smartct= l,=20 > with the special ata flag. That may be the explanation: I used prebuild kernels from SuSE and got = the illusion the SMART enabled libata went into the recent kernels since 2.= 6.9 by default. So I'll try with the libata patch explicitely again. Thanks for the tip. Dieter. --=20 Dieter St=FCken, con terra GmbH, M=FCnster stueken@conterra.de http://www.conterra.de/ (0)251-7474-501