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 15:04:36 -0700 Message-ID: <200506161504.36242.hjm@tacgi.com> References: <42B1A8EB.6060805@ucolick.org> <200506161051.27648.hjm@tacgi.com> <42B1F5D4.3000204@ucolick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42B1F5D4.3000204@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 I'm using: smartmontools release 5.32 so maybe I AM using a patched kernel. Haven't been able to explicitly find anything about it googling for 30s tho. sorry. hjm On Thursday 16 June 2005 2:57 pm, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > Harry Mangalam wrote: > >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. > > yeah, i did try using the -d ata option, but it made no difference. But > like I said, I don't know if there's also something to do with > smartmontools. Which version are you using? > > /Patrik -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@tacgi.com <>