-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2005-11-22 at 17:22 -0500, Ian Marlier wrote:
SATA disks are actually pretty well supported by smartctl; I use it to run scheduled tests, and health monitoring, on about 35 SATA systems.
I'm glad to hear that. The README.SATA led me to think the contrary - I see now that it doen't work only for some: README for S.M.A.R.T. on SATA discs Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers. If you use libata drivers, you need at least kernel 2.6.11. For older versions it won't work correctly because libata didn't support the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. For more read http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/. ... If, however the IDE driver doesn't support your particular SATA controller, or the controller doesn't have a legacy interface at all, then only libata can be used. As far as we know, the IDE driver only works on Intel, VIA and nVidia controllers. Perhaps the situation has improved in SuSE 10. Could you expand on it? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDg66ftTMYHG2NR9URAt71AJ9YRNGILcTjed3M7mvT8ewuu6Zo/wCeI9G/ EMVOm9jWJO6bewqYLLZXQig= =R2qn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----