Smart and SATA with FC4

Smart and SATA with FC4

[Patrik Jonsson]

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

Re: Smart and SATA with FC4

[Harry Mangalam]

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
>
>
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Re: Smart and SATA with FC4

[Patrik Jonsson]

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

Re: Smart and SATA with FC4

[Harry Mangalam]

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 
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