Re: [smartmontools-support]unsupported disk ?

[Per J. <pe...@co...>]

johon Doe wrote:

> Hi, I have two maxtor diamond 10 in raid0 and they
> seems unsupported, look:
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> # smartctl -a /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
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> Device: ATA      Maxtor 6B300S0   Version: BANC
> Serial number: B60457NH
> Device type: disk
> Local Time is: Fri Mar 25 17:40:45 2005 CET
> Device does not support SMART

Could this be related to those drives being SATA? =20

>From http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp :

"Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.=
4 and 2.6 kernels, if
you use the standard IDE drivers in drivers/ide. If you use the new libat=
a drivers, it won't
work correctly because libata doesn't yet support the needed ATA-passthro=
ugh ioctl() calls.
Jeff Garzik, the libata developer, says that this support will be added t=
o libata in the
future. When this happens, we'll add support to smartmontools for a new S=
ATA/libata device type
'-d sata'. Typically, to force an SATA disk to run using the standard (no=
n-libata) drivers, you
must use the BIOS to select "legacy mode" for the controller. If the IDE =
driver doesn't support
your particular SATA controller, or the controller doesn't have a legacy =
interface, then only
libata can be used. Unless the hard disk controller on the system motherb=
oard is Intel, VIA or
nVidia, standard IDE drivers may not work"


/Per Jessen, Z=FCrich

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