On 5/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Lange</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:john.lange@open-it.ca">john.lange@open-it.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One real negative about SMART is that its mostly IDE only. Even though<br>SATA drives have SMART capability the Linux kernel doesn't support it<br>unless you are using the very newest kernel (just checked and 2.6.15 is<br>
the first version to support it).<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I haven't used it with SATA, but SMART works great with SCSI, including 3Ware RAID cards.&nbsp; 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.
<br><br>Sean<br><br><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a>