Re: [smartmontools-support] AHCI and SMART and SATA and BIOS and Intel P965 Drivers

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Steve Follmer wrote:
> ...
> I got 5.37 to install and run on cygwin, my bad, anyway:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/smartctl /dev/hda
> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-cygwin-xp-sp2]...
>
> ATA/SATA driver is possibly a SCSI class driver not supporting SMART.
> If this is a SCSI disk, try "scsi<adapter><id>".
> Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
>   

Looks like the driver does not implement the necessary ioctls.
For further diagnostics, Please mail me an output of "smartctl -i -r 
ioctl,2 /dev/hda"


> ...
> The current grml 0.9 has smartctl 5.36. smartctl -a /dev/sda0 showed 
> some info about the drive and then said "device does not support SMART". 
>   

With recent Linux kernels, specifying ATA as device type is necessary:
"smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda"

This command from grml-small 0.3 works as expected with an Asus P5W 
(Intel 975X+ICH7R) in AHCI mode.

Cheers,

Christian