From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Mangalam Subject: Re: Smart and SATA with FC4 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:51:27 -0700 Message-ID: <200506161051.27648.hjm@tacgi.com> References: <42B1A8EB.6060805@ucolick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42B1A8EB.6060805@ucolick.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Patrik Jonsson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. harry (my mileage DOES vary) mangalam On Thursday 16 June 2005 9:29 am, you wrote: > Hello all, > > I just installed a machine running Fedora Core 4 x86_64 > (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel) and I'd like to get smartmontools to work > with my 8-drive SATA array. According to the smartmontools web page and > previous emails in this list you have to patch > the kernel, so I got the patch called "2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz" > from the libata-dev patchset web page and I'm trying to apply it, but > the patching fails and even after I (think) that I've manually resolved > the problems, the kernel won't compile. > > Can some kind soul outline the sequence of events necessary to patch the > kernel and get it to work? I've tried both smartmontools 5.32 and 5.33. > Is one or the other necessary? Or maybe the problem is the FC4 kernel, > which already has a bunch of patches applied? > > Thanks, > > /Patrik Jonsson > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@tacgi.com <>