Re: 2.6.15-rc6 - Success with ICH5/SATA + S.M.A.R.T.

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

Yes, it was my error..


On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Grant Coady wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:46:35 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Saturday 24 December 2005 18:43, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> smartmontools is going to have to be updated
>>>>> 
>>>>> What for?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Use "smartctl -d ata /dev/sda"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Its not perfect:
>>>> 
>>>> grover:/poola/home/ed# smartctl -d ata /dev/sda
>>>> smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 
>>>> Bruce Allen
>>>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>>> 
>>>> smartctl has problems but hddtemp works
>>> 
>>> What are the problems?  Your output gives us no clue...
>> 
>> 
>> That _is_ the clue, no output ;) 
>
> Perhaps if the poster provided a useful command line to smartctl, it would do 
> useful work.
>
> If you don't provide a command to smartctl, it won't do much of anything:
>
>> [jgarzik@sata ~]$ sudo smartctl  /dev/hda1
>> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
>> [jgarzik@sata ~]$ sudo smartctl -d ata /dev/sda1
>> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Jeff
>
>