Re: [smartmontools-support] S-ATA problem with SAMSUNG HD501LJ

[Justin P. <jp...@lu...>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Frisco wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Frisco wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I get errors regarding ATA Standard and SMART self check possibilities,
>>> both from smartd and smartctl:
>>>
>>> Jul 29 13:02:47 linux smartd[3604]: Device: /dev/sda, not capable of
>>> SMART self-check
> ...
>>>> smartctl version 5.37
>>
>> Try the latest version from CVS, your version is over a year old and may
>> not include the device/mappings for your hard drive.
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> unfortunatly there seems to be no newer version in the Debian repos - do
> you know of sources with builds of the CVS versions? Sometimes there are
> kind of unofficial repos:
>
> root@linux:/lost+found# apt-show-versions -a smartmontools
> smartmontools   5.37-5  install ok installed
> No stable version
> smartmontools   5.37-5  testing
> smartmontools   5.37-5  unstable
> smartmontools/testing uptodate 5.37-5
> root@linux:/lost+found#
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
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Not that I know of, I'd recommend pulling CVS and installing it locally in 
your home directory first to see if that solves the issue.

Justin.