[RndTbl] Core 5 DMA errors

[Sean Walberg]

On 5/31/06, John Lange <john.lange at 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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