Re: 2.6.15-rc6 - Success with ICH5/SATA + S.M.A.R.T.

[Jeff Garzik]

Grant Coady wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:46:35 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday 24 December 2005 18:43, Mark Lord wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > smartmontools is going to have to be updated
> > > >
> > > > What for?
> > > >
> > > > Use "smartctl -d ata /dev/sda"
> > >
> > >
> > > Its not perfect:
> > >
> > > grover:/poola/home/ed# smartctl -d ata /dev/sda
> > > smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
> > > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > smartctl has problems but hddtemp works
> >
> > What are the problems?  Your output gives us no clue...
>
>
> That _is_ the clue, no output ;)  

Perhaps if the poster provided a useful command line to smartctl, it 
would do useful work.

If you don't provide a command to smartctl, it won't do much of anything:

> [jgarzik@sata ~]$ sudo smartctl  /dev/hda1
> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

> [jgarzik@sata ~]$ sudo smartctl -d ata /dev/sda1
> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

	Jeff


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