31 May
2006
31 May
'06
3:13 p.m.
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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