From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PFC Subject: Re: multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which? headaches galore! Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:54:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200601230336.55220.mlaks@verizon.net> <43D53AEC.7060302@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43D53AEC.7060302@xs4all.nl> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Hendrikx Cc: Mitchell Laks , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Does SMART work for your SATA drives? Without SMART support I don't > really want to get any more SATA drives. Mine reports this: The feature should come some day. This is quite vital for RAID arrays... Meanwhile, get the same error as you : -------------------- SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools. smartmontools release 5.33 dated 2004/09/10 at 04:11:35 UTC smartmontools build host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu smartmontools build configured: 2005/12/11 13:39:15 UTC smartctl compile dated Dec 11 2005 at 14:39:26 2.6.15-gentoo