Yup. I should have said "a real negative is it doesn't work with SATA drives until kernel 2.6.15".
Ironically this thread reminded me to check into that because I have a server with SATA drives that have been unmonitored since the switch to libata about a year ago.
I just installed a new kernel a few weeks back and I'm now finally able to re-implement proper drive monitoring on it.
Seems to work perfectly with SATA now.
John
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:13 -0500, Sean Walberg wrote:
On 5/31/06, John Lange john.lange@open-it.ca wrote: One real negative about SMART is that its mostly IDE only. Even though SATA drives have SMART capability the Linux kernel doesn't support it unless you are using the very newest kernel (just checked and 2.6.15 is the first version to support it).
I haven't used it with SATA, but SMART works great with SCSI, including 3Ware RAID cards. Even though the card presents itself to the system as a SCSI device, the software can talk to the controller to poll the individual drives.
Sean
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