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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS 1068 controller
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:34:44 +1200
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Gabor Gombas wrote:

 > I'm having problems when using smartmontools with SATA disks behind an
 > LSI SAS controller. The machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1950-II, the
 > controller in question:

<snip>

 > Is this a kernel bug (2.6.22 at least did not drop the disks), or a 
bug in smartmontools?

It is possibly a smartmontools build issue - it does not like -pie or 
-fpie compiler flags.

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452389

and I reported it on the smartmontools list, but there was no resolution 
that I am aware of.

Regards,

Richard