From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758907AbXGICKN (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:10:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757483AbXGICKA (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:10:00 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44198 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757305AbXGICKA (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <469198E4.6000200@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:09:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Allen CC: Mark Lord , David Greaves , Douglas Gilbert , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox , Kai Makisara , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jan Dvorak , Smartmontools Mailing List , Klaus Fuerstberger , Bruce Allen Subject: Re: SMART problems in 2.6.22 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On the base point, libata has never enabled SMART on its own. That's always up to the BIOS, etc. It's possible that the recent addition of ACPI support will cause disks to be in different modes than previously expected. ACPI supplies ATA taskfiles to be pushed to the disk, and who knows what's in there... Jeff