From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrik Jonsson Subject: Re: Smart and SATA with FC4 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:57:40 -0700 Message-ID: <42B1F5D4.3000204@ucolick.org> References: <42B1A8EB.6060805@ucolick.org> <200506161051.27648.hjm@tacgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200506161051.27648.hjm@tacgi.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Harry Mangalam Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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