Re: libata: dma, io error messages
From: Paul Jakma
Date: Fri Aug 06 2004 - 10:18:56 EST
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Mark Lord wrote:
The smartmontools can answer that question far more reliably
than anyone here can.
IIRC, libata doesnt yet implement the raw IDE access (taskfile or
somesuch?) needed to allow smartctl to work:
# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Device: Version:
Serial number: WD-WMAES2172674
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Fri Aug 6 16:14:29 2004 IST
Device does not support SMART
Device does not support Error Counter logging
Device does not support Self Test logging
:(
Cheers
regards,
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